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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 – An eight-year prison sentence for a Greek cleaning lady who forced a certificate saying she had gone far enough in elementary school to be eligible for a job was commuted to a three-year suspended sentence by an Appeals Court.
With people accused of major crimes like embezzlement being released from pre-detention jail after claiming they were ill the case of the woman became a cause celebre, with critics saying the harsh sentence was unfair given lenient treatment for political figures charged with crimes.
The mother of 13, from Ioannina in northwestern Greece, had started working at the city’s university hospital in 2003, but was charged and convicted of falsifying her primary school certificate so she could get a job to support her family.
The court found her guilty of making a false statement and forgery that cost the state 120,000 euros ($134,885) – although she performed her job and the amount is a smidgeon of what others involved in major scandals were charging with stealing.
The court noted her record was otherwise clean and commuted her sentence. She was not identified but reportedly thanked the court and the people who supported her.
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.