THE NEW Interior Minister is 65-year-old Law Commissioner George Stavrinakis.
He was born in Nicosia in 1932, and studied law in London, qualifying as barrister. He worked as a lawyer between 1955 and 1962 and was then appointed District Judge.
In 1971, he was appointed president of the Nicosia-Kyrenia District Court and was president of the Nicosia District Court between 1978 and 1980.
In September 1980 he was appointed Labour Minister, and in 1982 Law Commissioner.
Stavrinakis has served as chairman numerous of investigating committees, including the one which embarrassed the former cabinet by clearing Electricity Authority board members of any wrongdoing. The cabinet had sacked the board members following allegations of mismanagement.
Sixty-four-year-old Michalakis Michaelides, the new Commerce, Industry and Tourism Minister, was born in Nicosia in 1931. he studied at the Government School of Pharmacy and was co-director and a partner in the Cyprus Pharmaceutical Company and founder and managing director of the firm Micheal P. Michaelides Ltd. He was a member and chairman of the board of the Cyprus association of Pharmaceuticals Importers and president of the board of the Nicosia Chamber of Commerce.
Michaelides served as Commerce Minister between 1985 and 1988, during the presidency of Spyros Kyprianou.
Stathis Papadakis, 59, is the new Labour and Social Insurance Minister. He was born in Athens in 1936 and is married with two children.
After graduating from the Higher School of Economics and Commerce in Athens in 1957 he joined his uncle’s family business dealing in oil imports.
A board member of many private companies, including brewers KEO, he has also served on the boards of the Chamber of Commerce and the Cyprus Productivity Centre. He is also president of the Limassol Rotary club.
The new Minister of Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment is 59-year-old father-of-five Andreas Mantovanis.
Mantovanis studied law at the Aristotelion University in Salonica and later won a scholarship to a masters degree in Public Administration at Albany State University, New York. He than worked as a civil servant, first at the public information office and the public service commission and later at the Interior Ministry.
A student of Greek and British electoral systems, he was instrumental in the registration of voters and conduct of the first municipal elections in 1979.
Mantovanis was appointed Famagusta District Officer in 1985 and served as Larnaca District Officer until his retirement in 1997.
George Charalambides, the new defence Minister, is a veteran of the 1955-59 EOKA struggle and comes from Paphos.
After independence he served in the Paphos and Limassol District Administrations and at the Ministries of Labour, Education and Interior and the Planning Bureau.
Charalambides studied Public Administration at the American University of Beirut and did post-graduate studies in Development Administration at the State University of Albany, New York.
He has served as Nicosia District Officer since 1985 and in the last two years before his retirement was acting permanent secretary of the Interior Ministry.
