Akel says agriculture minister must ‘resign or be sacked’

Akel on Friday said Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou must “resign or be sacked”, lambasting her response to the wildfires which tore through the Limassol district last summer, water shortages, and the recent outbreak of foot and mouth disease in the Larnaca district.

“The chain of failures and incompetence in her entire area of responsibility is damaging the country,” it said, before adding that while the Limassol fire was “the biggest disaster in the annals of the state”, “no one...