On Monday, December 16, former Cyprus Minister of Agriculture Costas Petrides died at the age of 75.
Petridis, a native of the village of Kouklia in the Paphos region, served as Minister of Agriculture under the late President Glafkos Clerides from 1993 to 1997. He was one of five ministers who were members of Dicko's party to resign after Clerides announced his intention to run for a second term.
Before becoming a minister, he studied mathematics, statistics and computer science at the University of Toronto in Canada and then pursued graduate studies at the University of Wisconsin in the United States.
Clerides' successor Tasos Papadopoulos appointed him Commissioner of the Cyprus Agricultural Payments Association in 2003, a position he held until 2015.
Source: cyprus-mail.com
