No more credit at the school canteen

THE HEADMASTER of a Nicosia school has stepped in to stop his canteen giving credit to pupils.

He told the Cyprus Mail yesterday that he had spoken with the canteen woman, and that there would be no more ‘buy now, pay later’ at his school.

The practice at the Nicosia elementary school was revealed to the Cyprus Mail last week by a furious parent. She complained that her children had been running up tabs kept for them by the canteen woman.

The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.