"Charyats Parin"

The election season for the Armenian representative in the Cyprus parliament enters its final week, with the two candidates entangled in a war of words (about their commitment to community issues and the Melkonian) and also a war of posters.

The challenger has taken up commercial billboard space on the central Armenia street, so when the incumbent put up posters at the Melkonian gate and on the Melkonian Commercial Centre, it raised a lot of questions: if he is "not working" with the AGBU clowns in Cyprus, how come he is being touted as the "AGBU candidate" and why was the challenger's request also to put up posters on the same locations rejected? This has also raised serious doubts about the incumbent commitment to help save and reopen the school, which is part of the Setrakian plan to prevent the issue being raised by the Armenian Representative.

Keep on walking

The people who have banned all activity within the Melkonian compound, who have plundered the school's library and distributed the books to the local AGBU chapter and the American Academy, have now decided to allow the staging of a play by Melkonian students.

This has nothing to do with the fact that the play's director has remained faithful to the handful of AGBU aristocrats who continue to control the property for their own benefit. Neither with the fact that all past efforts for fund raising were rejected. At least the play, to be staged on Sunday night, has no financial constraints.

 Its main sponsor is Johnnie Walker...