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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 – For the first time since an economic crisis began in 2010, which brough harsh austerity measures, almost all Greek pensioners of Jan. 1, 2023 will get an increase in benefits.
The state insurance agency EFKA said 94.6 percent of the country’s 2,634,786 pensioners will get a raise with some 1.3 million getting two hikes and another 185,649 receiving three, said the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency AMNA.
One in two pensioners will see one extra payout which is equivalent to a month’s full pension. The second and third increases relate to several factors affecting individual pensions, such as the annulment of a solidarity tax.
The changes are coming under the New Democracy government ahead of mid-2023 elections in which they will face a rematch with the former ruling Radical Left SYRIZA, which changes it name to the Progressive Alliance.
While in power, the Leftists continued pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions they had denounced before taking office, the measures so severe one pensioner killed himself in Syntagma Square in protest, which has been forgotten.
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.