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4 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
Education Minister Athena Michaelidou on Friday said the ministry was open to discussing the “minor” issues raised by teachers regarding the ministry’s proposal for a sweeping reform of teacher evaluations. Speaking to CyBC in the wake of an overwhelming rejection of the proposal in a referendum held by secondary teachers’ union Oelmek on Thursday, Michaelidou said that disagreements expressed had not touched on any issue of substance.
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4 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
Commissioner for Children’s Rights Despo Michalidou delivered her annual report to President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday, outlining a rise in problems affecting children on the island. Michaelidou said that included in her reports were complaints received by her office about the functioning of schools, including acceptance of non-Cypriot students, disciplinary matters, expulsions and exams.
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4 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
An event scheduled to take place at a Nicosia primary school under high-security conditions in collaboration with the Israeli Embassy has been moved to another venue, Minister of Education Athena Michaelidou said on Friday.
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4 weeks ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
The Limassol-Nicosia highway was closed early on Friday in the direction of Nicosia, in order to remove a vehicle that had caught on fire. Police announced the road had been closed at 7am from the exit point to Ayios Georgios Alamanos, to Zygi, for the purpose of removing a truck that had caught fire, near the Governor’s Beach area. Traffic was being diverted to the old Limassol-Nicosia road, via the exit to Ayios Georgios Alamanos and drivers are urged to use earlier exits to the old road.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
The managers of a property in the Paphos village of Timi have moved to initiate the eviction of Greek Cypriot refugees whose homes were built on land belonging to a Turkish Cypriot, it was reported on Thursday. The move came after repeated attempts to reach an agreement with the state over the sale of the land, which houses a Greek Cypriot refugee complex, according to a report in Philenews.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
The rate of child poverty in Cyprus is on a “steady decline”, social welfare deputy minister Marilena Evangelou said on Thursday. Speaking to CyBC radio, she highlighted the fact that according to the latest figures released by the European Union’s statistical agency, Eurostat, the island has the second-lowest proportion of children who are considered to be “in danger of poverty and social exclusion”.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
Secondary teachers are set to vote on the new government programme for their evaluations on Thursday. The proposed reform package towards improving the flexibility and merit-based advancement in the education system had been opposed by teacher’s union Oelmek, which had been calling on its members to express their dissatisfaction. Teachers will be asked a single question: “to what degree do you agree, or not with, the new evaluation system,” as prescribed in the proposed government bill.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
Cyprus and France’s “excellent levels of relations” were reaffirmed on Wednesday, as both sides explored opportunities for further expansion of cooperation. Chairman of the House committee on foreign affairs, Harris Georgiades, met with the French Ambassador to Cyprus, Clelia Chevrier-Kolacko, to discuss the anticipated upgrade of the two countries’ strategic agreement.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
The Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, on Wednesday highlighted the importance of independent, informed and critical thinking among children when using technology. Speaking at an event to mark Universal Children’s Day, which the UN observes on November 20, Michaelidou told children that the day serves to recognise them as individuals with full rights, while also underscoring the need to provide protection, security and hope.
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1 month ago | 
cyprus-mail.com | Charalambos Stylianou |Elias Hazou |Tom Cleaver |Iole Damaskinos
Greek Cypriot businessman Savvas Kakos testified as a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Turkish-Israeli property developer Simon Mistriel Aykut at the Nicosia Criminal Court on Wednesday. Aykut, who claims nationality in Turkey, Israel, and the ‘TRNC’, is being tried for the alleged usurpation and sale of €43 million worth of Greek Cypriot property in the north.
