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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 — Greece's National Meteorological Service (EMY) on Wednesday announced the start of its collaboration with the national weather services of Cyprus and Israel for the formation of the Eastern Mediterranean Team, which will be responsible for naming of weather systems that give rise to very intense phenomena in both the cold and hot periods of the year.
The trilateral cooperation between the three weather services is being launched under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the European meteorological Services Network (EIG-EUMETNET), which has 31 members.
In addition to the Eastern Mediterranean team, there will be equivalent teams for Southwestern Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium and Luxembourg), Western Europe (Ireland, UK, Netherlands), North Europe (Norway, Sweden and Denmark), Central Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Malta).
Also due to be set up are a Northeastern Europe team that will include Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and an Eastern Europe team made up of Bulgaria, Romania Moldova and Serbia.
This will be the first time that Europe will unite its forces through the regional cooperation of national weather services to provide an official meteorological support body for every country in order to better protect lives and property.
EMY will communicate with the Cyprus and Israeli weather services on a weekly basis to pool resources and discuss weather phenomena, using all available modern forecasting products to decide whether to name weather phenomena over the next 12 months using the following joint list:
Athina, Ballos, Carmel, Diomedes, Elpis, Fuad, Genesis, Helios, Irit, Kalypso, Lavi, Meliti, Nikias, Ora, Paris, Raphael, Semeli, Thomas, Uranis, Vion, Xenios, Yasmin, Zefyros.
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.