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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 – While attention was focused on the highly-contagious Omicron Variant spreading the Coronavirus like wildfire across Greece, the more deadly Delta Variant sent deaths rising and is bringing measures.
In another bid to try to slow the pandemic that will be two years old in March, the New Democracy government said restaurants and bars will stay have to close at midnight until the end of January, among other restrictions staying.
The decision came after recommendations from the government’s advisory panel of doctors and scientists reviewed epidemiological data to try to find out why deaths were jumping so hard in overwhelmed hospitals.
The move was made too, said Kathimerini, because the health system is being besieged by so many cases that broke records before falling back – but with deaths soaring at the same time, making the pandemic worse.
Delta and Omicron have combined to bring continued high numbers of cases and deaths as Prime Minsiter Kyriakos Mitsotakis pulled back from a pledge to consider mandatory vaccinations for all if the health crisis didn’t begin to abate.
The government also wanted an extension of the measures because January was seen a “lost cause” due to the onslaught of the Omicron variant the paper said while Mitsotakis is also trying to speed an economic recovery.
Health Minister Thanos Plevris said that, “Thre is a general understanding among all scientists” that around 20-25 days of tighter measures was needed although it’s uncertain whether they will continue into February, during carnival season.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.