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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 — Norway's Ambassador to Greece, Frode Overland Andersen, in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) released on Monday, said that there was such potential in the region of Greece, especially in the energy sector, that he would not be doing his job if he had not informed the Norwegian Energy Ministry and the companies in his country about the developments.
"Obviously, I cannot promise investments but I must say what is happening here because I think Norwegian industry was not watching what is happening in Greece as closely as it should," he added.
Norwegian companies such as Equinor, but also companies from other countries, are now waiting for the new law on floating wind parks in Greece, in order to determine their next investment moves in Greece, he noted.
The ports of northern Greece, such as those of Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis, play a key role, he said, as large-scale construction projects at sea, such as floating wind farms, are not possible without port infrastructure with sufficient depth.
According to Andersen, who recently visited Thessaloniki, "the region of northern Greece is today one of the most interesting in the country."
He explained that this was because it is the place where much of this change in the energy "terrain" is taking place, through projects such as the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), the floating storage regasification unit (FSRU) for natural gas in Alexandroupolis, the Interconnector Pipeline of Greece, the corresponding pipeline with North Macedonia as well as the huge Renewable Energy Sources (RES) project in western Macedonia, in the context of phasing out coal-fired power plants.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.