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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 — As part of plans to reopen to tourists again March 1 during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Cyprus plans to use a color-coded health risk assessment for faster checks of incoming visitors for safety.
Cyprus is eager to get travelers into the country again to bolster tourism, its major revenue provider, and prop up an economy brought down hard by two lockdowns being eased back.
The key markets include the former Colonial ruler the United Kingdom as well as Russia and Israel but the Transport Ministry extended until March 31 a mandatory seven-day quarantine of arrivals from the UK at a facility under the supervision of health authorities.
That practice has been in place for British arrivals since December, the Reuters news agency reported about the color code and tourism incentive plans.
Adopting a phased-in approach, authorities said all arrivals from March 1-31 from “green” countries would require a free PCR test upon arrival, with the requirement lifted from April 1.
Individuals arriving from “amber” countries need a PCR test 72 hours prior to travel, and those in the red will need a double PCR test, before and upon arrival to the island. Country coding would be reviewed on a weekly basis for now.
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.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.