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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 – With anarchists on a rampage in Athens and new electronic ticket machines being vandalized, Greek police will take over security in the capital’s Metro system and ISAP railway stations.
That was part of an agreement reached between the Citizens’ Protection and Transport ministries under which the police will put 200 officers in the stations to guard commuters and public property in a system rife with pickpockets especially preying on tourists.
The police will also be assigned to cover security gaps that have been observed on the public transport system, Kathimerini said, but no details were provided as to what those were or what the risks involved.
The measure is expected to result in savings of 4 million euros for the cash-strapped Transport Ministry, and will give police some benefits too, including free transportation for its staff.
The initiative was announced a joint press conference given by Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis and Citizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, a day after unidentified vandals damaged new electronic ticket machines at the Panepistimio metro station in central Athens, another in a line of attacks on the equipment.
It takes an average of five days to repair the machines with officials fearing the damages could encourage riders not to buy the new electronic tickets since barriers wouldn’t be working as well, allowing free entry to some stations.
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.