The understaffing of the St. Barnabas School for the Blind, the negligible number of specialized teachers, and the lack of timely intervention for children up to 3 years old were among the issues discussed in the Education Committee of the Parliament.As reported by the director of the School for the
The opening ceremony of the 2023 World Congress of Cypriots in the Diaspora is scheduled to take place Tuesday, at the University of Cyprus at 7 pm (local time).
For more than 40 years, the Pancyprian Organization of the Blind, founded in 1980, has been waging an unequal struggle for socio-economic empowerment, educational and professional integration and for ensuring the exercise of the fundamental and inalienable rights of the blind of Cyprus, President of
th anniversary of a brutal campaign to destroy the left on the Mediterranean island.
In statement, the Progressive Party of Working People (Akel) explained that the 1955 campaign sought to destroy the party, in the British occupying forces’ second attempt to wipe out the Communist Party of Cyprus, as it was known in the 1930s.
On December 14
th that year, the British colonialists arrested 135 Akel leaders and militants, including its general secretary Ezekias Papaioannou.
British Colonial Governor of Cyprus John Harding banned the party along with the Cyprus Farmers’ Union (EAK), the Pancyprian Organization of Democratic Women (PODG) and the Progressive Youth Organization (AON).