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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 – While civil service offices haven’t been closed yet in Greece over the COVID-19 Coronavirus, taxpayers and residents were told not to make visits to tax or customs offices or the General Chemical State Laboratory.
The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (IAPR) said transactions in almost all cases will be done only through the mail, em-mail or over the phone although it wasn’t said how the offices would then cope with likely scores of thousands of calls to offices already tough to reach on the phone before the move.
IAPR chief Giorgos Pitsilis said under the decision, to be published in the Government Gazette, people must visit these services in person only if absolutely necessary without defining what that would be or how it could be enforced otherwise.
The list of e-mail addresses and public service telephone numbers for use during the period of the coronavirus emergency were to be posted on the IAPR website (www.aade.gr) with no word on whether the deadline for filing taxes would be changed as of yet.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.