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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.
NICOSIA – Expecting an influx of Cypriot students abroad returning home for Easter, Cyprus’ government will bar entry to the country to those with medical clearance and put arrivals in mandatory quarantine for 14 days to help prevent spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus.
With 33 cases in the country so far, the government also ordered the shutdown of private businesses, including retail stores, nightclubs, hotels and malls, said the news agency Reuters, after closing border crossing points to the northern third occupied by Turkish-Cypriots since an unlawful 1974 invasion.
British military bases on the island reported two people who had returned from Britain on March 13 had been confirmed with the virus, one male and one female, said to have mild symptoms but in self-isolation.
Thousands of Cypriot students currently abroad would be offered a 750 euro ($838.69) benefit to stay in the country of their study and not come back for now, Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said, the report also added.
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.