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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 – Still hoping to salvage some sense of a summer season – depending on how many people might after COVID-19 Coronavirus lockdowns are lifted around the world – Greece's New Democracy is cobbling together plans to convince visitors that hotels and other facilities are safe.
The scheme is being worked out with the Health Ministry to insure strict hygiene protocols would be in place throughout the country as well as tourism areas, including sanitizing, social distancing and limiting customers in restaurants and other places.
Prime Minister Kyrikos Mitsotakis' office is almost ready to announce a package, said Kathimerini, with a team including Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis, State Minister Giorgos Gerapetris, and the Health Ministry's advisor on the COVID-19 response, University of Athens Professor and infectious diseases expert. Dr. Sotiris Tsiodras.
Tourism accounts for as much as 20 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 180.54 billion euros ($200.3 billion) and was the savior of the country during a near decade-long economic and austerity crisis as the biggest revenue engine.
But estimates now are that it could fall off as much as 70 percent and while Theoharis said he hopes tourism will resume in July, a month after year-round hotels will be allowed to reopen, that could be too late for resorts, with the added unknown factor being when international air traffic will fully resume.
The plan has four pillars, the paper said, including rules of operation for hotels and other facilities, as well as supporting employment, economic measures to bolster tourism-dependent areas as well as compensation.
Te Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) set the priorities and also being looked at is a reduction in the Value Added Tax (VAT) and waiving the income tax deposit for this year to prevent a total wipeout.
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.