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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 – Unrelenting in checks to help stem the spread of COVID-19, Greek police on Oct. 22 conducted 35,619 inspections nationwide and found 407 people not wearing face masks or keeping a safe social distance.
That costs a 150-euro ($177.63) fine although there is a small but hard-core anti-mask conspiracy theory contingent in the country who think the Coronavirus is a hoax and masks a way for the government to control their minds, which doesn't seem to be working.
People must wear masks in public gathering areas, extended even to outdoors and are required to stay at least 1.5 meters (4.92 feet) apart although that's impossible on public transport including buses, trams, and the metro.
There were also three businesses found breaking the law and they were each fined 10,000 euros ($11,842) for staying open past midnight when clubs and taverns are required to close. They will stay shuttered three days as well.
Since the beginning of August, the police (ELAS) recorded a total of 22,557 violations for various offenses and is intensifying inspections in hard-hit areas of the country, around Athens and the second-largest city and major port of Thessaloniki in the north.
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.