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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.
MEDIA, PA – Michael Coll, a Judge in Delaware Country, PA went into a rant about Greeks during a child support hearing involving Gus Hartas, a Greek-American, NBC10, the network’s local affiliate reported.
According to court transcripts, NBC reported, Coll asked Hartas: “Are you of Greek background, sir?”
When Hartas replied “yes,” the judge went into a rant: “The Greeks never pay taxes,” he said. “That’s why their country is in bankruptcy.”
Hartas’ attorney objected, but Coll continued: ““So can I take judicial note of the fact that the Greeks are in bankruptcy as a nation and one of the reasons, the principal reason is because none of them ever pay taxes?”
“I object,” the attorney said. “I object to the statements that you’re making.”
“Well, these are simply statements of fact, right?” the judge asked.
Hartas told NBC10 that Coll’s comments about Greeks “just means that he’s a straight racist person. If he said that about us, you know he would’ve said that about anybody, blacks, Hispanics…”
Hartas also described how his mother, who was in court with him, had her head down and was crying when Coll made the remarks.
Through NBC10, Coll issued an apology: “My language does not accurately reflect my feelings about the Greek community. I regret the language I used during the hearing.”
Coll also vacated the child support order he had signed during the hearing, and ordered a new hearing with a different judge.
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.