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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 – A 30-euro ($34.35) monthly subsidy from the New Democracy government has proved a pittance for customers hit with huge increases in electricity bills in Greece as the winter looms.
The hikes are likely to last until the first quarter of 2022 and coincide with fuel oil costs and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic that could leave many of the country’s most vulnerable in the cold and dark.
Wholesale rates remain high in the international and domestic markets, and the fluctuations in the rates of natural gas indicate no easing of the pressure on suppliers and down to corporate and household clients facing a costly burden.
Average electricity bills have risen 189 percent in a year and show no sign of lessening, the government offering no other aid although it wasn’t said if people who can’t pay will have their power turned off.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.