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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.
Already with a notorious reputation for gouging people, Greek cab drivers got another blow when traffic police made 118 checks and found 37 had committed violations, including overcharging customers and targeting unsuspecting tourists.
The checks took place near the Acropolis in central Athens, in and around the port of Piraeus and the central Kifissos bus station, said Kathimerini, with on arrest for meter tampering and another on a driver who charged tourists 80 euros for a short drive from the port of Piraeus to the Acropolis. Both were to appear before a prosecutor.
The taxi industry, wanting to keep a monopoly, got Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras to make changes to laws allowing ride-sharing services such as Uber – which provide estimates for rides and give identities of drivers – to essentially force them out of business and unable to compete with cabs.
“I was charged 40 euros for a ride that was supposed to cost 20 euros because the price supposedly doubles after 9 pm. Not true: they double after midnight,” one complaint on Trip Advisor said about a Greek cab driver.
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.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.