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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 – The first pension hikes in Greece in a dozen years won’t benefit one-third of recipients who aren’t in line to get increases promised by the New Democracy government starting in 2023 – an election year.
They will be left out because of what was called, but not explained, a “personal difference” between pensions issued before and after the May 2016 cutoff date.
And those who do get hikes will see relatively picayune amounts after not getting any adjustments since 2010, when Greece began getting what became three international bailouts of 326 billion euros ($325.33 billion.)
Some 1.2 million eligible recipients will get up to 6 percent increases while 250,000-350,000 will get a pittance, having had to live on pensions whose worth fell because of the cost of living.
But the government – touting soaring revenues driven by tourism – as a tool to attract foreign investors and applaud an economic turnaround during the COVID-19 pandemic, said the increases will depend on whether there’s enough money, said Kathimerini.
Pensioners, like most everyone else in the country now, have seen the value of their income shrink during the bailout years that brought harsh austerity measures, and with record inflation cutting deep into their wallets.
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.