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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 – With Greek notorious for parking – or double parking – where they want, including on sidewalks, police in Athens and the port of Piraeus have started fining offenders blocking wheelchair access ramps at pedestrian crossings.
City officials said officers of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) and municipal police forces in the two cities carried out joint operations to locate violators who have been allowed to park in front of wheelchair points.
In downtown Athens on one day alone officers confiscated the license plates off 31 cars and had two vehicles towed for obstructing traffic as well as access to wheelchair ramps while in Piraeus earlier 49 violations were recorded, with 21 vehicles being removed.
The police said they plan to continue the campaign after receiving complaints about the cars keeping the handicapped from being able to cross streets.
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.