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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 – The municipalities of Attica are working hard to prepare all school units, in view of their reopening on Monday.
The education ministry has proposed the opening of final-year students on May 11 and for the rest highschool students on the following Monday, May 18.
The municipal services are trying to ensure that the reopening is safe for students, teachers and staff, following the instructions of the scientists and the ministry of education.
The Ministry has already sent to all municipalities a significant number of antiseptics, which will be distributed to all schools. Municipalities, based on the instructions they have received, will ensure that the school facilities are meticulously cleaned at least twice a day, before the start and during the school day (not necessarily disinfection, except in cases where there have been confirmed coronavirus cases) and of course, there should be adequacy in the necessary cleaning and personal protection materials, such as antiseptics, soaps, napkins, disposable glasses, face masks, but also special thermometers.
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.
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.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.