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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.
Riding a record run of tourism seasons that brought an economic recovery but not wanting to get complacent, Cyprus needs to promote its mountains and other attractions as well as the allure of beaches and sunshine to get more people to come, Deputy Minister for Tourism Savvas Perdios said.
Perdios had a meeting with Limassol Mayor Nikos Nikolaides and mayors of neighboring municipalities to talk about ways to show tourists there’s more than just sun and sand and there are other places to visit, the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) said.
Perdios told CNA that Limassol saw a big jump in growth in recent years but that his agency wants to make sure that continues as it is already working on a 2030 National Strategy for Tourism.
He said there’s infrastructure to attract more cruise ship arrivals at Limassol’s port and was optimistic there would be an increase in traffic in the next few years, the report said.
There’s some reason for worry as tourist arrivals in March showed a big drop percent over the previous year although it came during the winter season, typically slower, before summer brings the hordes.
For the period of January-March 2019, tourist arrivals amounted to 357,475 compared to 369,438 the corresponding period in 2018, a fall of 3.2 percent.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
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.