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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 anarchist stronghold neighborhood of Exarchia in the Greek capital is increasingly spiraling into lawlessness, violence and coming apart with little help from the government, some 400 residents wrote in a stinging letter of complaint.
They said living conditions are deteriorating after anarchists have continued to attack the home of State Minister Alekos Flambouraris who lives there with riot police guarding him and having to fend off Molotov Cocktail-tossing assailants a number of times.
The ruling Radical Left SYRIZA of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, accused of tolerating and implicitly encouraging violence in a bid to re-establish Leftist credentials after repeatedly surrendering to Capitalist creditors and banks and reneging on anti-austerity promises, has ignored the entreaties of residents.
They wrote a similar letter early in the year which was dismissed out of hand and set aside without offering any more security for the residents who have had to endure battles on the streets between the police and anarchists, and seen some suspects almost immediately released after being detained following clashes.
“Exarchia is still part of Athens’s dark zone. Following this year’s November 17 and December 6 anniversaries, we are coming to realize that the situation is as bad as it has ever been,” the signatories said, referring to anniversaries of a 1973 student uprising and the killing of a 15-year-old boy in 2008 by municipal police officers that trigger annual uprisings.
“Hundreds of hooded protesters, of every nationality, were left unobstructed to barge into houses and apartment blocks, to smash doors, to destroy, to vandalize, to intimidate, to steal and build fires on rooftops,” they said.
The residents, whose names are being withheld, complained that cars and motorbikes were wrecked during the riots that also caused serious damage to public buildings and infrastructure, Kathimerini reported.
“Gangs and mafia organizations which include Greek and foreign members are given free rein in the area,” they said, adding that people were being attacked, drug dealers are plying the streets and businesses are regularly raided and robbed with impunity.
“Groups of migrants, often including children, have been abandoned in grim conditions around the area,” they said. “We also have rights. Life belongs to us and our children.” They were ignored again with no initial response.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ALBANY – New York State Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, and Senator James Skoufis honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on March 26, welcoming His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, who offered an invocation before the Senate.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".