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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 – Going after people of means who think they can violate traffic laws at will and get off with minor fines, Greece’s Infrastructure and Transports Ministry has proposed a plan to base the penalties on a violator’s income.
The scheme was announced by Minister Christos Spritzis during his appearance on the state-run broadcaster’s morning current affairs program.
The ruling Radical Left SYRIZA government said a draft bill will be tabled in Parliament in the next few days to hike fines for the rich and people who have sufficient incomes to pay more based on the violation, such as speeding, running red lights on parking on sidewalks, all of which are common in Greece.
Penalties would be imposed after a check on a violator’s income although many rich hide their income in secret foreign accounts to also cheat on taxes and frequently get away with it while those with lower incomes get pounded by the courts.
Spritzis said his leftist-rightist coalition government wants to “combat the reasoning of ‘I have money to pay and can skirt the law,’” a usual occurrence in Greece where the rich get away with crimes because they have the money and influence.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S.
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".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.