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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 – Almost four years after 102 people died in wildfires, families of victims seeking compensation were faced with another delay when officials for state bodies being sued said they still weren’t ready for court.
There was no explanation why but Kathinerini said that 27 plaintiffs had appealed to administrative courts and the accused municipalities of Marathonas and Penteli at the Three-Member Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens.
But state officials didn’t make a required filing in court, the paper said, and they weren’t hold to account nor was any date set for them to appear again as cases in Greece can takes years with constant delays and no repercussions.
The lawsuit, the first of many that will follow with compensation claims, said that some municipal officials and those from the former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA which didn’t have a diaster response plan were liable for missions and negligence, especially at the nearly devastated village of Mati where most died.
Some SYRIZA officials as well as in the fire service are being prosecuted but progress has been so slow and to be negligible in bringing forward their cases as well leaving the victims families waiting for action.
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.