Our View: Government’s crisis management is hopeless  

Disy chief and president of the House, Annita Demetriou, called for the resignation/sacking of Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou for her inadequate handling of the outbreak of the foot and mouth disease. At a specially called news conference on Wednesday, Demetriou lambasted the slapdash approach of the government to a problem it had ignored, despite being aware of its existence in the north since before Christmas.

There was no policy, said Demetriou, pointing out the “contradictory positions taken by the government...