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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 — While Greece has barred visitors from the United Kingdom for now because of that country’s high rate of COVID-19 infections, the father of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was allowed in to go to his villa in Pelion.
Stanley Johnson, 79, star of the show The I'm a Celebrity …G et Me Out of Here! said he got around restrictions barring direct flights from the United Kingdom by flying to Bulgaria first, a loophole that could allow others to do the same.
He boasted he was able to break his own country’s rules for not traveling – the Prime Minister’s top advisor, Dominic Cummings did the same during a lockdown – and showed off on Instagram, proudly flouting the restrictions.
He shared photos from the airplane even showing flying over Greece and said he was welcomed into the country with no explanation why with the virus still ravaging the UK.
He said he wasn’t coming on a vacation. "I'm in Pelion on essential business trying to Covid-proof my property in view of the upcoming letting season. I need to set up distancing measures at the property because they're taking it very seriously here.
"The Greeks are trying to stop bulk arrivals from the UK but they were quite happy to have me coming in. All they wanted to know where I was coming from and what I was doing. Then I had my temperature taken and was swabbed twice,” he said.
"We must get these air bridges set up as soon as possible. From what I've seen the arrival of the British will not be a danger to the Greeks because they're so careful here,” while the UK has not. He said he won’t obey lockdowns.
The four-bed villa in Pelion has a pool and terraces with views of the mountains and the sea. The beach is only a five-minute walk through an olive grove, said the British newspaper The Daily Mail.
The paper said the trip of the former lawmaker showed it’s possible to travel via a third country to get around rules designed to stop the spread of coronavirus with Greece also barring for now visitors from the United States, Russia, Brazil and Sweden who could ostensibly use the same method to come into the country.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP) — It was in the den that Karen Goodwin most strongly felt her son’s presence: On the coffee table were his ashes, inside a clock with its hands forever frozen at 12:35 a.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A bus carrying worshippers on a long-distance trip from Botswana to an Easter weekend church gathering in South Africa plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass Thursday and burst into flames as it hit the rocky ground below, killing at least 45 people, authorities said.