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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 — Τhe gov.gr platform was now also available as an app for mobile phones so that, "nine months after the state's digital portal was first introduced….we are literally taking the state into our hands," stated Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at a teleconference the presentation of new govApp and open data platform data.gov.gr. Mitsotakis, speaking during the online meeting on Monday, noted that this was an application that will allow citizens to access any e-documents they need, from birth certificates to simple authorisations, and carry out transactions with the state in any place at any time.
The prime minister said that any effort and initiative with a digital impact was not only a modernisation effort but a political reform with social context: "A digital state means less bureaucracy, more transparency and better services for the citizens. A digital economy means increased productivity, new investments and more jobs," he noted.
On his part, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said that the "radical redesigning of the platform data.gov.gr was an important pending issue for the country. Now the free availability of the state's data… will become a valuable research tool and a factor for growth and attracting investments."
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.