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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Greece’s former top corruption prosecutor Eleni Raikou is suing the colleague who replaced her – Eleni Touloupaki – for allegedly violating the secrecy of testimony and slandering Raikou and her husband as part of the alleged scandal surrounding the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, that has gone nowhere.
Raikou’s suit cites reports naming her physician husband, Lazaros Karnesis, as one of the people on the list of medical professionals being investigated in the affair in which the ruling Radical Left SYRIZA-led coalition charged that political rivals and doctors were being bribed by Novartis.
The former head of Novartis Greece and two doctors charged in the case were acquitted by a court. The case is based on the secret testimony of three unnamed whistleblower witnesses who haven’t produced a shred of evidence beyond their allegations, enough for Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to declare all those charged as guilty and calling the affair the biggest scandal in the history of the country. No one has been convicted and the list of the accused includes two former Prime Ministers, a former finance minister and the head of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, who has been a thorn in the side of SYRIZA in disputing rosy government economic claims.
As Touloupaki is overseeing the probe, Raikou holds her responsible for the leak of information relating to her husband, said Kathimerini.
Karnesis has publicly responded to the reports linking him to the probe, denying any connection with the Swiss pharmaceutical company beyond the participation in a group study in 2009 for which he received 1,000 euros ($1143). Novartis dominates the pharmaceutical market in Greece and said it has no reason to bribe anyone. Karnesis also is suing Touloupaki and her associates.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.