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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 – Already noted as being a major point for the sale of counterfeit goods, Greece has emerged as well as a transit place for fake cosmetics to get into the European Union, costing legitimate companies about 234 million euros ($256.24 million.)
That’s about 20 percent of the domestic market’s sales, said Kathimerini in a report on the phenomenon that showed the phony cosmetics are being moved to other countries as well.
The EU figure is 10.6 percent of total sales in the cosmetics sector, or almost 7 billion euros ($7.67 billion,) according to a recent study by the EU Intellectual Property Office which found the sale of counterfeit goods is still flourishing.
Including apparel, sports goods, toys, bags and suitcases, jewelry and watches, music products, alcoholic beverages, medications, pesticides and smartphones – Greece loses about 1.3 billion euros ($1.42 billion) annually, while the EU figure surpasses 56 billion euros ($61.32 billion.)
Piotr Stryszowski, a chief economist at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), told the paper that exports of counterfeit fragrances and cosmetics add up to $5.4 billion globally, with Greece one of the biggest transit points in Europe.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.