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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 — "We need you to be our allies in the effort to avoid measures with heavy economic impact, it is very important for the central state and regional administration, as well as local administration, to cooperate and be on full alert," said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a video conference on Thursday with the 13 regional governors of Greece.
Mitsotakis asked for closer cooperation with central administration and a more active role by the regions in the battle against the pandemic, underlining that the "measures work provided they are implemented," adding that this will always create minor conflicts of interests on a regional and local level.
He said that the problem at present was now mainly concentrated in night-time leisure activities and some specific clusters, mostly in retirement homes and refugee camps, and quoted Professor of infectious diseases Sotiris Tsiodras, who said that the transmission of the virus was mostly linked with the activities of young people, especially during the night.
Participating in the meeting were Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias, Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos, Deputy Interior Minister Theodoros Livanios and Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias, Professor of infectious diseases Sotiris Tsiodras, the secretary general for the coordination of interior policies Thanassis Kontogeorgis, the president of the Central Union of Greek Municipalities Dimitris Papastergiou and all the regional governors of Greece.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.