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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 National Tourism Organisation (GNTO) President Angela Gerekou, National Theatre President Vassilis Poulantzas and its artistic director Dimitris Lignadis signed a memorandum of cooperation stressing the need for a "pandemic of culture" and the use of all the possibilities of the two bodies with the aim of promoting Greece as an international cultural destination, especially in the field of theatre.
"The connection between culture and tourism is the main asset of the country and the National Theatre, with its emblematic role, is the most appropriate institution for the promotion of our cultural tourism. A kind of tourism that can become, especially this year, a very strong pole of attraction and an important occasion for Greeks – as domestic tourism will be significantly strengthened – but also foreign visitors to travel with health safety to Greece, with the observance of all measures of protection," Gerekou underlined.
She added that the Organisation will promote all the activities of the National Theatre and other cultural institutions through its social media, the portal visitgreece.gr and its services around the world, in order to arouse the interest of foreign tourists to visit Greece and enjoy what its beautiful landscapes, on the occasion of a theatrical performance or other cultural activity.
"After all," she said, "this is part of experiential tourism, which we are planning to further promote in the future."
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.