General News
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 – President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou, while in Portugal on an official visit, was presented with the Golden Key of the City of Lisbon.
The Golden Key of Lisbon was bestowed to Sakellaropoulou by Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas on Tuesday at the Town Hall.
Later, Sakellaropoulou visited the Champalinmaud Foundation for Research against Cancer, where she was welcomed by Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and the head of the foundation Leonor Beleza.
A meeting with State Minister of the Presidency Mariana Vieira da Silva at the prime minister’s residence and working lunch followed.
Sakellaropoulou, accompanied by the President of Portugal and mayor of Lisbon Carlos Moedas was given a tour of the historic centre of Lisbon in a tram and later visited the collection “Távora Sequeira Pinto” at the Museu do Oriente.
The Greek president, along with the mayor of Lisbon, visited the district of Chelas which was restored in the last three decades and now offers social housing. She spoke with local residents and visited the community library Marvila.
Finally, Sakellaropoulou met with the Metropolitan of Spain and Portugal, Bessarion.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.