Madden to be posted in Athens, replacement announced

CYPRUS will have a new British High Commissioner at the end of February next year, it was announced yesterday.

Current High Commissioner David Madden will take over as British ambassador in Athens from next May, after more than four years on the island.

He will be replaced by John Martin CMG (Commander of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint John).

Martin served in Cyprus as head of the High Commission’s political section from 1978 to 1982. His last ambassadorial post was Malawi.

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.