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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 — The amount of 300,000 euros will be given to all the municipalities that were afflicted by the regional earthquakes earlier in the week in central Greece, said Alternate Interior Minister Stelios Petsas on Saturday.
The cash aid will be provided to the municipalities of Tyrnavos, Elassona and Farkadona, so that local residents can then be given amounts ranging from 600 to 6,000 euros, so as to deal with immediate emergencies, the minister underlined.
By Tuesday, he added, housing units will be installed to accommodate village residents at the area of Elassona, he added. These housing units will be installed after they have first been provided with a water and power supply.
The rapid housing of people in regional villages is a priority, he added, while 37 trailer homes will also arrive there on Saturday.
Petsas is visiting these areas on Saturday alongside Thessaly Governor Kostas Agorastos and Mayors of Tyrnavos Giannis Kokouras and of Elassona Nikos Gatsas.
"We are here to deal with a catastrophic earthquake," he noted, "but fortunately there were no casualties."
Meanwhile, a state of emergency was on Friday declared in the municipality of Tyrnavos and the municipal unit of Potamia within the Elassona municipality, both in the Larissa regional unit, as well as the municipality of Farkadona in the Trikala regional unit, in order to address the emergency needs and management of the repercussions of the strong earthquake in these areas on March 3.
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.