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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 four major banks, who reversed fees and hikes after meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, were raided by inspectors from the competition commission probing whether the institutions were working like a cartel.
That included an unprecedented surprise audit at the headquarters of all four, reports citing the confiscation of documents, hard drives and other data, said the business newspaper Naftemporiki of the move.
Other reports indicated there was an investigation underway over where the hikes in fees added on to a variety of routine bank transactions – such as printing a deposit’s balance from an ATM – were coordinated and agreed to by the banks acting in collusion.
While the hikes were rolled back, the banks said that didn’t mean they wouldn’t be reinstituted at some point although they backed down after Mitsotakis squeezed them
Mitsotakis said “the government cannot possibly accept these increases,” and called them “unjustified, especially in a financial climate that is much better,” according to a briefing by the premier’s office, the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency ANA-MPA reported earlier.
His office office said that bankers justified the rise as a way of encouraging the use of e-banking, in which they had invested heavily. They first committed however to review the fee hikes, especially in remote locations where there is a single ATM for use by local residents before saying they wouldn’t be imposed, at least for now.
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.