Pressure mounts on Christodoulides to sack Agriculture Minister Panayiotou

DISY president Annita Demetriou yesterday demanded the resignation of Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou over her handling of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, joining AKEL and the Movement of Ecologists in calling for her removal. Demetriou described the situation as “dramatic and out of control,” saying that behind the statistics were farmers watching their livelihoods destroyed, workers […]

By Frixos Dalitis