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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.
QUEENS, NY – On October 29, the seven-year anniversary since Sandy pummeled Queens’ coastal communities, Borough President candidate Costa Constantinides unveiled an ambitious climate plan that protects our neighbors from the next big storm. The announcement was made at the Crossbay Kiteboarding Launch Area at Cross Bay Boulevard at the southern foot of the Joseph P. Addabbo/North Channel Bridge in Broad Channel.
Despite the stark warning about climate change that fatal hurricane sent, Queens’ nearly 2.4 million residents are ill prepared for this existential phenomenon’s violent weather, rising sea levels, and extreme heat.
“Queens residents deserve leadership that ensures they aren’t displaced by rising tides or rising rents. Sadly, seven years after Sandy killed 11 of our neighbors, destroyed our coastal communities, and eroded our shores, we are still unprepared for the next big storm,” said Constantinides, who has chaired the New York City Council’s Environmental Protection Committee since 2015. “The plan we’re announcing today will put Queens on the course to a stronger, safer future that protects these neighborhoods by making them more sustainable. We can close dirty power plants blighting communities for too long while also making it more affordable to keep the lights on. Our movement will make Queens will be the national leader on green policies that create good jobs that serve as a pathway to the middle class.”
Constantinides’ plan would make Queens the leader for sustainability, resiliency and green job creation in New York City. Not only will neighborhoods from the Rockaways to College Point be protected from storm surge, the Borough President’s Office attack the root causes of climate change by closing dirty power plants that also make Queens residents sicker. A new Deputy Borough President for Sustainability will execute this ambitious plan, with a mandate to put Queens on a brighter course by 2030.
Building on his success in the New York City Council, Constantinides would reform the Borough President’s Office to:
Sandy killed 11 of our neighbors and permanently changed the future of Queens. Conservative estimates by the New York City Panel on Climate Change predict an eight-inch sea level rise over the next 30 years, which stands to drastically reshape the layout of southern Queens. Rockaway residents would see regular tidal flooding in their homes as early as 2050 without meaningful action now. And extreme heat predicted at the end of this century is expected to kill thousands of New Yorkers — a glib future for western Queens’ children with respiratory illnesses.
Constantinides has dedicated his life to preventing Queens from inheriting this future. His proposals, if elected Queens Borough President, would build upon an unprecedented track record in the City Council to save New York City from the climate crisis. He stood up to Big Real Estate when it tried to kill the Climate Mobilization Act, which became the largest carbon emissions reduction ever mandated by any city on Earth. Constantinides has called for a New York City Department of Sustainability, the first of its kind in the nation, to ensure the Big Apple is fully committed to fighting climate change. More recently, he introduced the Renewable Rikers Act, which can close polluting infrastructure in over-policed, under-invested communities, by generating renewable energy and diverting wastewater to a vacated Rikers Island.
Costa Constantinides currently serves in the New York City Council, where he represents western Queens and chairs the Committee on Environmental Protection. His legislative accomplishments include the Climate Mobilization Act, a Green New Deal for New York City, as well as the historic 80% reduction by 2050 of carbon emissions commitment. He lives in his native Astoria with his wife and son.
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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.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.