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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 – A parliamentary committee approved a state partnership with the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) to build a new hospital in Komotini, NE Greece, worth 105 million euros.
The General Hospital of Komotini-Stavros Niarchos Foundation, as it will be known, will be built on the premises of the General Hospital of Komotini-Sismanoglio.
A draft bill containing the agreement was criticized by the opposition members on the committee over the future hospital’s legal status as a private law entity. Deputy Health Minister Vassilis Kondozamanis said this would “allow the implementation of a new administrative model that will change the image of hospitals in the country.” He added that the current staff of Sismanoglio, totalling 388, will be increased to 516 during the first year of the hospital’s operation and 562 the third one.
Main opposition SYRIZA representative Pavlos Polakis said his party would vote down the draft law containing the agreement – despite the fact the gift was planned during Syriza’s rule – because it allows the involvement of the private sector in the public health sect
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.