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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.
NICOSIA – With critics saying Cyprus is selling Golden Visa residency permits, which include passports to the European Union, with providing checks for criminals, money laundering and tax evasion, the country’s lawmakers passed a law giving them review of who gets them.
The law will come into effect on January 31, 2020 to give the government time to set the regulations, the Cyprus Mail said, although the government has been under withering criticism for not properly vetting rich foreigners effectively buying a kind of citizenship.
According to the law, the visas for public interest and foreign investors will still be permitted but under conditions set by regulations tabled to the House for approval and which will be published in the Official Gazette.
Greens’ MP, Giorgos Perdikis, whose party proposed the bill, said there were sectors of the economy in need of investment such as research and innovation and agriculture, but none were in the visa scheme.
Instead, the government tied investment to those buying or building luxury residences, most of which were related to the construction of the high-rises in Limassol where foreign-owned yachts are commonplace.
The European Commission had warned that programs of EU states, including Cyprus, to sell passports and visas to wealthy foreigners could help organised crime groups infiltrate the bloc and raise the risk of money laundering, corruption and tax evasion.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades had adamantly defended the scheme and said other countries programs weren’t as good and he wants to reserve the right for his country to do what it wants although it’s a member of the European Under and under bloc laws too.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.