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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 – With successive Greek governments unable to stop unlawful construction on the mainland, partially blamed for massive deaths in fires that swept the seaside village of Mati in 2018, the Environment Ministry said it will demolish unlicensed buildings on the popular islands of Mykonos and Santorini.
There are thousands of unlawful buildings across the country and almost nothing has been done to stop them or raze them as the former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA said it would do after the fires, quickly abandoning the idea.
Now the New Democracy is the latest to say it will try to stop the phenomenon and show that violations that were almost always tolerated won't be anymore, especially on islands that are a major draw for tourists.
The government said it would raze buildings constructed without a license, which has been said before but not carried out but didn't say if it would stop any further attempts to build unlawfully.
Deputy Environment Minister Dimitris Economou told Kathimerini the inspections will be carried out using “satellite photos and the multitude of complaints” which, he said, will allow authorities to identify the permits that have been issued illegally and buildings that violate zoning rules.
The permits will be revoked (and) the buildings will be demolished,” he promised but didn't say why it took so long. Bids will be taken by the end of the year to draft urban development plans for the islands that in the summer are overrun with visitors.
For Santorini, studies are also being drafted for a new port and the creation of a waste management facility, the report said.
While Mykonos was still a draw this year – wild parties there were blamed for making the island a COVID-19 hot spot – Santorini, once ranked the world's most popular island, didn't see the usual hordes, people too afraid to travel even to Greece for vacations.
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.
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.
ATHENS - A 35-year-old mother from the western city of Patras was found guilty in the murder of her eldest daughter, who was 9 at the time - with trials pending for the deaths of her other two children.