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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 – Cafes are full, supermarket sales are up, confidence is rising but a near decade-long economic and austerity crisis left an indelible mark, with a survey finding 68.3 percent of Greeks are living close to or below the poverty line.
The results came from the poll done by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that was published in the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) that also showed 12.9 percent of people are trying to make ends meet below that level.
Some 55.4 percent said they feel vulnerable and could fall below the poverty line if they miss out on three months salary, said the survey, reported Kathimerini, the overall findings revealing that the proportion of Greeks struggling to survive one of the OECD’s highest, behind only Latvia.
SEVE said Greece is among the European Union countries with the greatest inequalities in incomes, made worse by austerity measures imposed by successive governments that hammered workers, pensioners and the poor while the rich, oligarchs, politicians, the privileged and Parliament workers largely escaped with near impunity, some even prospering.
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.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.