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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 – Free rides for all users of the Greek capital’s underground Metro system in 2015 when capital controls were imposed by the then-ruling Radical Left SYRIZA – and for the unemployed – cost millions of euros in losses.
Those have amounted to more than 150 million euros ($166.42 million) for the free passes for the jobless alone for the Athens Urban Transport Organization (OASA.) That policy also began in the summer of 2015 as then-Premier Alexis Tsipras was trying to show sympathy for people hard hit by austerity measures he continued after vowing to stop them.
The report said the government didn’t subsidize the system for the losses that were also growing before barriers were erected to keep out fare evaders who routinely could ride for SYRIZA was ousted in July 7 snap elections by New Democracy, whose new Deputy Transport Minister, Yiannis Kefalogiannis said will talk to the Labor Ministry about the problem as reports said switching to an electronic ticket system has cut into the problem of people not paying to ride although they can still quickly move through the barriers if the person ahead opens them with a valid ticket.
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.