Re previous scandals besetting/entertaining the island:
A criminal complaint for sexual harassment has been filed filed against the head of the Osiou Avakoum monastery, by a former employee [apparently secular] who, the Cyprus Times says, spent two hours giving statements to police on Sunday. The Cyprus Times adds that the complaint had various contradictions which created doubt among the investigators regarding the authenticity and motivation behind the complaint. More supermarket tabloid scandal material to follow? Some reporter appears to have found a good leaky source in the local constabulary.
Not to be outdone in the scandal department, the North is displeased to report that the use of fake diplomas in pursuit of promotions now seems to have spread to the military, as a lieutenant colonel was remanded in custody for two days by a district court [not military] in the west for having presented a fake doctoral diploma in order to obtain promotion. On the one hand it is encouraging to find that the military values education sufficiently to make an officer entertain this sort of risk - and if you intend to make use of counterfeit degrees why not go all the way and claim a doctorate. On the other hand it is another somewhat unsettling example of arrest and imprison first and sort out the details later.
Meanwhile the only domestic excitement chez nous is a twenty minute power outage, the first of the season, leaving us to rely briefly on “real” rather than electronic books on a blustery day
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