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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 – Greek elections in the spring will be unpredictable and affected by a mix of issues, including criticism of the New Democracy government’s surveillance and phone bugging, a review for the Dutch bank ING said.
In a review, Senior Analyst Paolo Pizzoli wrote that there will be political uncertainty in the run-up to elections and that a complicated system will almost certainly require two elections because no frontrunner would win enough votes to form a single-party government.
The election will be held under a purely proportional system, a shift from the previous structure in which a first-place finisher got a 50-seat bonus in the 300-member Parliament, which was removed under the former rule of the now major opposition SYRIZA.
The analysis noted that New Democracy (ND) currently has a 37-28 percent lead of the Leftists but that the resurging PASOK-KINAL center-left movement has doubled its popularity to 11.5 percent to become a catalyst.
“With these numbers, ND would be far from reaching a majority under the new system if it does not align itself with others (PASOK). Setting up a reliable coalition may turn out to be a difficult task,” the report said.
There’s a range of other factors too, especially the economy which is seeking soaring inflation cooling down but Greek households still struggling with the cost of living.
“The outlook for 2023 remains uncertain. With GDP well above pre-COVID levels, re-opening effects should now be over. Tourism receipts also returned back to their historical peak in the summer of last year, making it unlikely that we’ll see further substantial gains in 2023,” the report said.
An accelerating recovery which brought 5.6 percent growth in 2022 will be curtailed in 2023, it said, adding: “Changes to real disposable income will increasingly depend on inflation developments, with inevitable side effects on consumption.”
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.