More could be done to help vulnerable refugees, MPs say
The government agency tasked with providing assistance to refugees could be doing a lot more, opposition MPs said on Tuesday. Lawmakers were reviewing the 2021...
Skevi Koukouma
Children of refugee mothers face discrimination
Children of refugee mothers are still being discriminated against in certain ways despite having been granted refugee status a few years ago, a report by...
Refugee estate residents protest third-world living conditions
Residents of the Zenon refugee estate in Larnaca on Tuesday called on President Nicos Anastasiades to intervene for urgent repairs to the buildings they live...
Refugees being marginalised says House committee
Within the past five years the government has installed only 16 lifts in refugee housing estates, the head of the House refugee committee said on...
Use of TC properties could be passed to refugee descendants
A bill providing for the right of children and grandchildren of refugees who live in Turkish Cypriot property to use the house after the original...
More co-ordination needed over refugee loans, MPs hear
MPs on Tuesday called for more coordination between the Co-op Central Bank and the Loan Commissioners to treat all refugees who received loans as part...
Our View: Many on low income more deserving of state help than refugees
The House refugees committee on Tuesday discussed what its chairwoman, Akel deputy Skevi Koukouma, described as an “injustice against the refugee world.” She was referring...
MPs discuss who lives in Turkish Cypriot properties
A not-insignificant number of Greek Cypriots who are not refugees currently make use of properties in the south belonging to Turkish Cypriots, it emerged on...
Akel MPs find major problems at Kofinou centre
AN Akel delegation found a number of problems at Kofinou refugee reception centre on Friday, among them a shortage of staff and problems with the...
Energy prospects and tax dodging on troika agenda
By Constantinos Psillides CYPRUS’ energy prospects, tax-dodging, and refugees were some of the issue discussed on Friday by the troika delegation, on the island to...
Refugees given more time to repay loans
REFUGEES receiving financial support from the Agency for Equal Distribution of Burdens have been given the option of repaying their loans over a longer period...
Our View: Too many unanswered questions on scheme to protect homebuyers
IT WAS expected that talk of foreclosures by the banks sparks the fighting talk of deputies all of whom want to pose as the defenders...
Bill to give former BoC employees bank shares
ALL PARTIES have unanimously submitted a bill to enable former Bank of Cyprus employees who voluntarily left to be given compensatory shares for opting to...