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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 – Essentially untaxed, apart from some contributions and largely flying Flags of Convenience from other countries, Greece’s shipping tycoons who rule the seas said regulations would impede further investments.
The used their world’s largest shipping sector exhibition, Posidonia 2022, to complain that putting conditions on the sector would hamper them, not wanting more government or other regulations.
Citing uncertainty about that, Ioannis Martinos, CEO of The Signal Group, told a forum that: “Policy-makers should be more decisive. Shipowners need clarity, they are not chemists. Scientists and policy-makers need to guide them and tell them which direction they should move toward.”
He left his position as co-chief executive of Thenamaris, the Greek shipping company founded by his family, to start his own business, shippers saying that regulations and pressure to reduce carbons are leading to new technologies for energy efficiency, said Kathimerini.
Spyros Karampampas of the Association of Innovative Application Companies (SEKE) said remarks from Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, European Union officials and top shippers “made it abundantly clear that the shipping industry must focus on digitization and new innovative technologies for decarbonization and optimization purposes.”
The British valuation and market intelligence company VesselsValue published a report on the evolution of Greek ship ownership in the four years since the last event held before the COVID-19 pandemic struck hard.
The report showed the oligarchs have increased their vessels by 11 percent, buying 474 more and have 4,766, with their value soaring 92 percent and now worth $158.97 million, almost double the $82.85 billion in 2018.
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.
NEW YORK – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus attended a press conference at the Consulate General of Greece in New York on March 28 to continue to spread the word about postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections.
LONDON - A British Airways flight that started in Athens on January 3 just missed hitting a drone over the Kent countryside in England, coming within 5 feet at a height of 9,600 feet, the plane carrying 180 passengers and traveling 250 miles an hour.
It won’t pass through some French cities and towns that didn’t want it but the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will be lit April 16 in Olympia by priestesses wearing outfits that some on social media found weren’t just right.
ATHENS - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.