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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.
After another squabble with Turkey about refugees on the border, Greece will lengthen a wall there by some 80 kilometers (49.07 miles) to keep them out, after Turkey lets human traffickers keep sending them.
“We cannot talk about a closed Europe, but we also cannot have a Europe where it’s the traffickers who decide who gets in,” said Migration Minister Notis Mitarachis.
“Humanitarianism is very important, but there are millions of people who want to get into the EU because of the inequalities in the world,” he added, said Kathimerini of the plan.
That came after the two countries pointed fingers at each other over the fate of some 38 refugees and migrants stuck on an islet in the Evros River which separates them, finally rescued by Greece after a 5-year-old girl stung by a scorpion died.
Greece said that the islet wasn’t in Greek territory but the main opposition SYRIZA said that it was, but Mitarachis said that army ordinance and the cadaster maps also showed otherwise.
In November, 2021, the wall was previously extended with plans at that point to add another 35 kilometers (21.75 miles) to the already-extended fence.
It’s aimed at covering the distance from Didymoteicho to Tychero, along which the Evros River serves as a natural border, police telling the paper that’s the area where refugees and migrants most often pick to try to get across.
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.