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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.
Two months before the first anniversary of the July 23, 2018 wildfires that killed 102 people in areas north of Greece’s capital, nearly obliterating the seaside village of Mati, residents complained the government has done little to help or avoid a repeat.
Prime Minister and Radical Left SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, whose administration was shown in a TV documentary to have tried to downplay the death toll and hide a chaotic response to the disaster, visited the village twice and said it would be rebuilt.
It hasn’t been – nor has he moved as promised to raze unlawful structures in Attica such as those in Mati blamed for blocking escape routes to the sea – and even protests in Athens haven’t moved him.
While 10 months have gone by since the inferno, inspections of damaged properties have yet to be completed and as a result repairs and restoration works have in many cases yet to start, said Kathimerini, although Tsipras vowed a swift response.
Those properties that have undergone inspections and been deemed unfit for habitation have yet to be demolished due to the usual problem of Greek bureaucracy, leaving standing charred remains of the conflagration while Tsipras is waging a re-election campaign.
With the summer fire season about to begin, the residents and experts said the state is not prepared if another disaster arises and that the countryside is just as vulnerable as it was last year due to more government indifference.
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.