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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.
THESSALONIKI – Greeks struggling to deal with across-the-board price hikes in everything from food to heating oil to gasoline during the lingering COVID-19 pandemic will be further helped, said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The Coronavirus is cutting into his New Democracy government’s hopes to speed an economic recovery after the end of a nearly decade-long financial crisis worsened by austerity measures hitting workers, pensioners and the poor.
He said his administration would “exhaust all available resources” to support households and businesses whacked by the soaring costs, after reports it was contemplating reducing the 24 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on food.
“Although this government has devoted a great deal of energy to the management of all these external crises, it has not made the slightest concession to the implementation of our government program,” he told party members in a meeting in Greece’s second-largest city as inflation is the highest in decades.
“We managed the crises with responsibility, seriousness and honesty and despite the great difficulties we turned them into opportunities,” he added, reported Kathimerini of going to a party stronghold to meet them.
When COVID hit in 2020, his government poured more than 17.5 billion euros ($19.33 billion) into helping workers laid off during lockdowns of non-essential businesses as well as their companies.
The European Union has supplied 32.5 billion euros ($35.9 billion) in loans and grants but there’s been no report where that has gone while state coffers are benefiting from a return to economic growth.
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.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
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.