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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 government reshuffle sends a message of a clash with society and "rewards ministers for a series of criminal mistakes in the pandemic," main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokesperson Nasos Iliopoulos said on Tuesday, talking to ITV Ioannina.
Ruling New Democracy was failing to heed the cries for changes to health, the economy and education at a time when Greece had over 5,000 dead due to the virus, the year was ending in a recession exceeding 10 percent and remote learning for schools was "a shambles", he said.
"It is a reshuffle that has not heard society's real criticism and also signals authoritarianism, as in the transfer to the interior ministry of Makis Voridis – who had a very specific, far right, pro-junta past and who has discussed institutional measures to prevent the left from ever ruling again," he said, while he also interpreted the transfer of Kostis Hatzidakis to the labour ministry as "a clear cut signal of an attack on the social insurance system, of pension cuts for existing pensioners and worsening pension terms for current workers."
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.