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December 31, 2013
Commissioner tells migration to stop splitting families
THE Children’s Rights Commissioner has called on the migration department to stop taking the law into its own hands and wants to see an end to the illegal practice of separating families. Leda Koursoumba told the Cyprus Mail that for more than three years she has been forced to step in to set right the […]
Posted in: human rights
Families split as parents detained
November 10, 2013
TWO top state officials are investigating several cases involving children whose parents have been illegally detained under threat of deportation by the migration department. Ombudswoman, Eliza Savvidou, and the Child Commissioner, Leda Koursoumba, have highlighted a number of shocking cases in which the migration department have left teenagers to fend for themselves after detaining both […]
Posted in: human rights
Marriage of convenience? Not if you’re 11 months pregnant… but who’s counting?
November 5, 2013
THE Commissioner for Children’s Rights is expected to intervene in a case where a three year old girl has been deprived her European mother and Pakistani father, because the migration department insists that the couple’s marriage was one of convenience. An Interior Ministry report, seen by the Cyprus Mail, claims that Mitova Zoya Margaritova from […]
Posted in: human rights
From boom to bust in six years
October 19, 2013
FROM BOASTING a below-average unemployment rate in 2007, Cyprus now has one of the EU’s highest jobless rates, hitting the young the hardest, data presented by the island’s statistical services Cystat shows. The data, presented during a conference on Friday organised by the national anti-poverty network Cyprus (NAPN), painted a depressing picture of growing jobless […]
Posted in: economy
Angels… but not the usual kind
September 29, 2013
DON’T be fooled by the word ‘angel’, said Andreas Koupparis, the chairman of the Cyprus Business Angels Network, Cyban. Angel investors fund high growth businesses – usually start-ups – and have an interest in seeing them grow for years so they generate a substantial return for those involved. The motive is financial, of course, which […]
Posted in: economy
Courts stymied by laws dating back to 1954
September 8, 2013
UNLESS THE antiquated system Cyprus inherited from its former colonial government is overhauled, the move to digitise court procedures will make little or no difference to the public, a member of the Bar Association has said. Cabinet decided on Wednesday to invite tenders to digitise court procedures and improve the system by offering online services […]
Posted in: judicial
Poly Pantelides 
November 30, 2013
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