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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.
Shocked by a photo of Greece’s Alternate Health Minister dancing with a cigarette in his mouth at a nightclub, European Commissioner for Health Vytenis Andriukaitis said he was upset the government has refused to enforce the latest in a long line of smoking bans.
The minister, Pavlos Polakis, is a surgeon with a reputation for disdaining the law and even smoked at a World No Smoking Day press conference in the Health Ministry, a public building where smoking is prohibited, a law almost no one in Greece obeys because there’s no punishment.
Speaking on the sidelines of an event marking World Cancer Day at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Andriukaitis said that he had been shocked to smell cigarette smoke in the halls and offices of the country’s Health Ministry during a visit.
“It’s shameful,” Andriukaitis added, referring to the photo of Polakis, who is a kid of political pitbull for Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipas, speaking out on issues from foreign policy to the economy and attacking rival politicians.
“Whether someone smokes or not is not a question of freedom of choice. When it takes place in a public space, it’s about human rights, because the people around him have the right to breathe fresh air,” the European Commissioner said. He was ignored.
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.