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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 — Greek households' available income grew by 4.5 billion euros or 3.8 pct in 2019, compared with 2018, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Thursday. In a report, the statistics service said that final consumption spending rose 2.6 billion euros or by 2.1 pct in 2019, while the savings rate (gross saving/gross available income) rising to -3.5 pct in 2019 from -5.2 pct in 2018.
The investment rate by non financial companies (gross fixed capital formation/gross added value) was 17.1 pct in 2019 from 16.8 pct in 2018. The external balance of goods and services recorded a deficit of 3.0 billion euros in 2019, down from a shortfall of 3.8 billion in 2018. Imports grew by 2.8 billion euros and export rose by 3.5 billion euros. The economy recorded a net borrowing of -1.6 billion euros in 2019 after a -4.3 billion euros 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.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.