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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 – Trying to balance appeasing Greece’s shipping tycoons who own the world’s largest fleet with getting them to do more to support their homeland, Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying to persuade them to give up flags of convenience from other countries to fly the Greek flag on their ships instead.
That would mean they would lose tax privileges and have to pay more to Greece which they have ferociously fought, even to the point of threatening to take their headquarters out of the country while claiming they are doing enough with voluntary payments.
The new Premier, elected in July 7 snap elections that ousted the Radical Left SYRIZA of Alexis Tsipras, who caved in early in his 4 ½ year term to the shipowners after vowing to “crush the oligarchy,” raised the idea of flying the Greek flag during his visit to the Ministry of Shipping and Island Policy.
“The challenge is to make the Greek flag more attractive for Greek shipowners,” Mitsotakis said, without indicating how that could happen unless it also means lower taxes for the tycoons who don’t want to pay more.
Greek shipowners own about 21 percent of the global merchant marine capacity among ships over 1,000 gross tons, and more than half the capacity of the European Union merchant fleet as of now.
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.