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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 with its announcements for the assumption of supposedly emergency measures, is trying to reassure islanders and those working in tourism and catering. It seeks to create a false impression that the islands will be protected from the pandemic, despite the fact that the tourists who visit them will not be subjected to any real, precautionary medical screening and without the implementation of the necessary systematic and universal measures in aeroplanes and ships," said the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) in an announcement on Friday.
"The reality is completely different and the government must assume its responsibilities. The risk of large-scale incidents of the epidemic appearing on the islands is very high while the means of protection and management remain insufficient or nonexistent. The shortages in hospitals and health centres are tragic and these facilities can't cover the needs of the islanders in the winter let alone the increased needs of the tourist period in conditions of pandemic".
KKE demanded, among others, the immediate hiring of permanent staff at all health structures on the islands, effective testing and screening at major tourist units and tourist zones and destinations, on tourists, workers and residents, precautionary screening of those arriving on the islands and the large-scale release of refugees and migrants that live in overcrowded, terrible conditions in the island hotspots.
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.
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.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.