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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 — Enterprises in the hospitality sector suffered a loss of 7.0 billion euros in their turnover in 2020 hit by the pandemic, with hotels losing 4.7 billion euros, Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Friday. More specifically, turnover in the hotel industry totaled 2,303,658,141 euros in 2020, down 67 pct from 2019 (6,991,184,282), with Karpathos recording the biggest drop (-83.5 pct) and Florina the smallest (-14.3 pct).
The restaurant industry recorded a turnvoer of 3,773,850,833 euros in 2020, down 37.7 pct from 2019 (6,059,184,851), with Mykonos recording the biggest percentage decline (-73.3 pct) and Korinth the smallest (-17.3 pct).
In the fourth quarter of 2020, turnover in the hotel industry fell 50.8 pct to 409,330,420 euros, compared with the same period in 2019, with Kastoria recording the biggest decline (-75.3 pct) and Chios the lowest (-8.3 pct). Ikaria recorded a 2.9 pct increase in turnover. In the resturant sector, turnover totaled 716,414,682 euros in the fourth quarter, down 46 pct from 2019, with Kastoria (-65.7 pct) leading the fall, while Kea-Kythnos recorded a 17.9 pct increase.
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.