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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 – The spokesperson for main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, Nasos Iliopoulos, accused the government of “making a deliberate political choice to plunder society in the energy sector,” during an interview with the radio station “Sto Kokkino 105.5 FM” on Friday.
“The money for the subsidies that the government is giving to keep down prices is taken from society, at a time when there are increased tax revenues, which from VAT alone amount to 2.5 billion, and inflation is running at 11-12%, when the ruling New Democracy party refuses to reduce the excise tax on fuel or the VAT on basic foodstuffs. The government is taking the money from the citizens and giving it to those who loot society through [utility] bills. In other words, there is a double route for the looting, which is coordinated by the Mitsotakis government,” Iliopoulos said.
Reiterating that “in energy, the issue is the model and not the subsidies,” he explained: “It is irrational to give 2 billion [euros] in September to those who ‘steal’ from the citizens, when with just 340 million [euros] we can have the Public Power Corporation (PPC) under public control that will restrain prices.”
“It is irrational not to follow the model of Spain and Portugal. All this time, these two countries pay 100 to 170 euros per megawatt hour, and in Greece we pay 400 to 650,” he added.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.