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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 the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has struck hard at workers who lost income through either temporary layoffs during an early lockdown or have seen their companies close, landlords are not heeding a call by the government to cut rents.
The New Democracy administration asked them to cut rents by some 30 percent but hasn't seen it happen, leading the government to consider making it mandatory, said the business newspaper Naftemporiki.
It said the rent cuts under consideration would be both in areas where there have been second lockdowns as well as those almost at that level, which would include the prefecture of Attica and the capital Athens.
A review of sites offering properties for rent show almost no reductions to correspond with the crisis despite the desperate situation in which people have been put and more empty storefronts echoing the bad days of a near decade-long economic and austerity crisis, just as Greece was beginning to recover from the worst of it.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.