At least 224 people dead in Mexico quake
Rescuers frantically worked to dig a young girl out from under the rubble of a partially collapsed school in Mexico City on Wednesday, offering a small glimmer of hope amid devastation from a major...
View ArticleStruggling to bring up a dead sister’s children
Nikola Nikolov is the only working member of his family but, along with wife Blaga Petkova, was determined to keep the promise he made to his dying sister and bring up her children as his own. The...
View ArticleGovernment approves centre for unaccompanied minors
Cabinet approved the construction of a reception centre for unaccompanied minors to help meet future demands and handle such cases more efficiently. The centre, which is to be built and run by the...
View ArticleAlmost half of Cypriot kids now overweight, Mediterranean diet ‘gone’
By Annette Chrysostomou Of all Europeans, Cypriots have the highest rate of overweight and obese children, 43 per cent of both boys and girls, the latest figures of the World Health Organisation (WHO)...
View ArticleUS military may house immigrant kids amid Trump policy confusion
The US military has been asked to get ready to house up to 20,000 immigrant children, officials said on Thursday, as President Donald Trump‘s efforts to roll back a widely condemned policy of...
View ArticleUnion calls on teachers to abstain from extracurricular activities
By Evie Andreou Primary teachers’ union, Poed has called on its members to abstain from extracurricular activities outside school, including escorting pupils to parades, citing lack of provisions as to...
View ArticleNever born but still my babies
Miscarriages are common, until they happen to you says Maria Gregoriou By Maria Gregoriou Experiences are said to be unique only because we all live through them differently. The saddest come with...
View ArticleFamily mediation a solution for child abduction
Monday marked the beginning of International Mediation Week which aims to promote the importance of family mediation in parental abduction cases, Hope For Children CRC Policy Centre (HFC) announced....
View ArticleLack of buses with child-safe seats, MPs hear
The lack of buses with three-point seatbelts have made the implementation recently-passed legislation regarding the addition of child seats on buses difficult, the house transport committee heard on...
View ArticleShriners doctors will be in Cyprus next week to aid sick children
A group of specialist orthopaedic doctors from the Shriners Hospital for Children of Springfield, Massachusetts will be in Cyprus next week to examine children with severe orthopaedic and spine...
View ArticleChildren’s watchdog calls for end to indiscriminate pardons
By George Psyllides The head of a children’s watchdog on Thursday handed President Nicos Anastasiades her recommendations relating to the release of child molesters from prison on presidential pardon,...
View ArticleTen per cent increase in complaints to child commissioner
By Evie Andreou Children’s Rights Commissioner Leda Koursoumba on Thursday said that her office has seen a more than 10 per cent increase last year in complaints concerning education, family matters,...
View ArticleEighteen new assistant posts for special-needs schoolchildren
The Cabinet on Wednesday approved the creation of 18 additional posts as assistant to schoolchildren with special needs for the year 2019. The cost is estimated at €196,200 in 2019, and will be covered...
View ArticleChristmas ‘Gift of Love’ urgent appeal for 20 more bags
By Bejay Browne Organisers of the Gift of Love, an appeal that ensures that hundreds of children of needy families in Paphos will receive a gift bag of presents this Christmas, are just short of their...
View ArticleChild rapist was allowed public access to children
By Ioannis Androlikou A convicted child rapist has been allowed to take children on horse and carriage rides along the Paphos coast and in Peyia since 2014 because a series of legal loopholes meant he...
View ArticleAn incredibly dangerous precedent
The fine levied on the unnamed woman for calling people who adopted Asian children Idiots is an incredibly dangerous precedent. Free speech is the voicing of one’s opinions and if the PC brigade get...
View Article98 per cent of Cypriot children in good health
Some 98 per cent of Cypriot children were deemed to be in good health in 2017, compared with the EU average of 95 per cent, Eurostat said on Tuesday. The figures put Cyprus in eight place in terms of...
View ArticlePaediatricians say children must not be treated by GPs under Gesy
If not enough paediatricians join the National Health Scheme (Gesy), the government must find a way to make sure children will not be treated by general physicians (GPs), MPs heard on Thursday. During...
View Article1.4 per cent of Cypriot children have unmet medical needs
In Cyprus in 2017, 1.4 per cent of children aged below the age of 16 had medical needs that were not treated, slightly lower than the EU average of 1.8 per cent. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest share...
View ArticleKoursoumba highlights plight of unaccompanied minors
STATE policies and programmes for the transition of unaccompanied minors seeking asylum into independent adulthood are severely lacking, the Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Leda...
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