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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.
Joining Cyprus’ call to Turkey to admit ships from the legitimate government of the divided island, the European Community Shipowners’ Association (ECSA) said there should be a political solution to the long-standing prohibition.
Cyprus is a member of the European Union – not including the occupied northern third Turkey seized in a 1974 invasion – and said it would make financial and political sense for the decades-long ban to be lifted, with Turkey wanting to join the bloc.
Turkey has been imposing restrictive measures on Cypriot-flagged ships since 1987, Claes Berglund, President-elect of ECSA said, according to the Cyprus Mail which reported on the shipowners call for a solution.
“Unilateral actions that hamper the free flow of goods and services or target specific nations to prevent them performing transport services are condemned as strongly as possible by ECSA. Political solutions are strongly supported,” he said, the paper reported.
Berglund, talking to the Cyprus News Agency, suggested the EU consider concentrating dossiers concerning shipping under a new Commissioner responsible for shipping. “It is without doubt that the current structure is suboptimal and makes EU maritime policy not as effective and efficient as should be,” he added.
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades earlier said Turkey – which has sent energy vessels and warships into the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) off the coast – should end its ban prohibiting Cypriot ships.
Speaking at the 30th Annual General Meeting of the Cyprus Shipping Chamber in Limassol, he said Cyprus would step up efforts to remove the unlawful ban imposed by Turkey – which doesn’t recognize his legitimate government, a member of the European Union that Turkey wants to join.
He said the blocking of Cypriot ships – Cypriot planes are banned in Turkey too – was a clear violation of international law.
“Our efforts to remove these anachronistic and illegal restrictions will be further intensified as they are a clear violation of international law,” Anastasiades said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.