General News
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 — Incoming flight restrictions and obligatory self-isolation on international arrivals are extended to March 8, the Civil Aviation Authority (CYA) said in a new notam on Sunday.
Specifically:
– Flights from non-EU and non-Schengen Agreement countries to Greece are banned. Exceptions include citizens of the following countries: Australia, Israel, New Zealand, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom.
– All international arrivals are required to furnish a negative coronavirus (PCR) test taken a maximum of 72 hours before travel.
– All international arrivals are required to observe a 7-day quarantine wherever they are housed (declared on the Passenger Locator Form, or PLF). For UK-originating passengers, a PCR test will be required after the 7-day quarantine. Random testing will also be carried out on arrival at Greek airports. If results are positive, the quarantine will be a 14-day one.
– Flights between Greece and Turkey continue to be suspended to March 8.
– All flights to and from Albania and North Macedonia will be carried out at Athens International Airpot 'Eleftherios Venizelos' only.
– Maximum number of travellers from the Russian Federation is at 500 per week (permanent Russian residents). The flights to and from Russia will only operate at the Athens, Thessaloniki and Iraklio International Airports.
Exceptions to the above contained in previous notams remain in effect.
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.