Tales from the Coffeeshop: Leather jackets and livestock crises

THE QUESTION anyone with half a brain asks is why our authorities had not started vaccinating sheep, goats and cows when the outbreak of foot and mouth disease was reported in the occupied area in December.

Our veterinary services decided to ask for vaccines from the EU two months after the outbreak of the disease in the north, when animals in farms in the Larnaca district were taken ill. Was it not the sensible thing to start vaccinating the Greek Cypriot animals in December to prevent the current fiasco...