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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 – Τhe departure of tourists from the ports of Attica for the Easter holidays (from 15/4 to 25/4) showed a significant increase compared to 2021, when there were restrictive measures due to the pandemic.
According to data from the Shipping and Island Policy Μinistry, there was an increase in passenger departures of 150 pct compared to last year in the port of Piraeus, for destinations in the Cyclades and Dodecanese islands, Crete and the Saronic Gulf.
Specifically, passengers increased to 166,609 in 2022 from 66,563 in 2021 and vehicles that departed increased to 26,695 this year from 8,624 last year.
Respectively, passenger traffic from the port of Rafina increased by 579 pct during the same period.
Coast Guard officials said that the most popular destinations this year were the Cyclades islands, Crete and Rhodes.
However, shipping firms noted that passenger traffic in 2022 was up to 20-25 pct lower on many routes in comparison with 2019, when there were no pandemic restrictions and can therefore be considered comparable.
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.