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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- Almost eight in ten Greek households (78.5 pct) have internet access in their homes, up 2.6 pct from 2018, while a spectacular 69.2 pct increase has been recorded in the last 10 years (2010-2019), Hellenic Statistical Authority said in a survey released on Friday.
The survey said that 78.1 pct of Greek households have a broadband connection with at least one member -aged 16-74 years old – an increase of 2.6 pct form 2018. The survey said that the main reasons for non-access to the internet from home were the following: lack of skill, lack of useful information and a high cost of equipment. The survey showed that 75.7 pct of people aged 16-74 years old accessed the internet in the first quater of 2019, up 4.8 pct from 2018 (72.2 pct). Of those, 83.4 pct using the internet in the first quarter had a mobile connection (up 9.0 pct from 2018), of which 94.6 pct used a smart phone, 33.1 pct a laptop, 20.2 pct a tablet and 1.6 pct used any other device.
The reasons for accessing the internet were: seeking information on products and services (88.3 pct), reading online news (87.7 pct), receiving e-messages (77.9 pct), using the social media (74.9 pct), music (72.9 pct), messaging (72 pct), web camera use (66.8 pct), health information (65.9 pct), uploading (46.2 pct), bank transactions (40.3 pct), blogging (13.1 pct), online consultation (3.8 pct), and the selling of goods and services through auctions (3.2 pct).
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.
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.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.