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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 – After declaring that state workers were entitled to the return of two months annual holiday bonuses ended under austerity measures, Greece’s highest administrative court now said elimination of the benefit was Constitutional.
The Council of State that was because of a pressing national interest after saying it wasn’t and previously saying it was, continuing to see-saw but the ruling the bonuses were legal and can’t be paid back retroactively is final and binding, said Kathimerini.
Before the country’s economic crisis began in 2010, requiring successive governments to seek what turned into three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($365.46 billion), public workers got two weeks bonuses at Easter and in the summer and a full month for the Christmas holiday period.
The judges said the decision to abolish the so-called 13th and 14th salaries was made “with full knowledge of the average living standards of the country’s population and specifically of the living standards of civil servants.”
It added that the wages of public sector workers, even after cuts, “secured a dignified living standard,” although it didn’t, devastating the lives of many except for politicians and tax cheats who escaped the crisis.
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.