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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 – A third COVID-19 lockdown aimed at slowing the spread of the virus, restrictions including night curfews, has brought Greek taxi drivers to the brink of going bust they complained, demanding more state assistance to survive.
They are also limited in how many passengers they can take, further cutting into their business that has seen far fewer people traveling with non-essential businesses closed and being limited to their neighborhoods.
The Attica Taxi Drivers’ Union (SATA) said the sector is at risk of extermination as its confrontation with the Transport and Finance ministries grew, saying the New Democracy government is doing too little to help.
In a statement, SATA said the government has taken a provocative stance toward “about 38,000 taxi owners and another 15,000 drivers throughout Greece,” many of whom remain in idle.
Deputy Transport Minister Yiannis Kefaloyiannis said the taxi industry had already received 90 million euros ($107.11 million) and that of that amount some 53 million euros ($63.07 million) was paid as refunds to 24,000 drivers.
SATA said that was 800 euros ($952.06) in May 2020 as the pandemic began raging, and that fewer than half the 38,000 drivers benefited from the state’s program that returns advanced taxes,getting only 500 euros ($593.03) more since then.
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.