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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 – To the surprise of no one who’s bought gasoline or food, tried to rent an apartment or buy a home – and gotten an electricity bill – inflation in Greece has jumpeds so far so fast that it has hit a record high.
The June data for the National Consumer Price Index, which the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said hit 11.3 percent in May could be as much as 13 percent when the new figure is released July 7, said Kathimerini.
The level of the harmonized index of consumer prices at 12 percent now is the highest figure since it started being recorded in Greece in 1996, surpassing the May 2022 number, and the highest since 1993.
That’s bad news for the New Democracy government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who reportedly has been mulling to call snap elections while surveys show he’s still some 8 percent ahead of the major opposition SYRIZA of former premier Alexis Tsipras, whom he unseated in July, 2019.
The cost of almost everything has soared in Greece, with electricity bills doubling, food prices jumping, energy costs so high that the government is providing subsidies and a 24 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on food.
Inflation in the 19-member Eurozone of countries that use the euro – eight European Union countries don’t – is expected to reach 8.4 percent in June, said the statistics agency Eurostat.
In Greece it jumped 1.5 percent from 10.5 percent in May, the second highest month-on-month index in the zone after Estonia. Eurostat data showed Greece had the fifth highest inflation rate in the area. Gasoline is nearing $10 a gallon.
Eurostat’s sector-specific figures also show that Greece had the second highest energy inflation at 60.6 percent after Belgium at 64.6 percent on an annual basis and that it’s likely to keep getting worse.
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.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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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".