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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 – Holding big leads over the major opposition SYRIZA he ousted in 2019, Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis reportedly said there won't be an early election in the autumn to take advantage of his popularity.
While that would extend his term if he won, he said he will stay the course through the end of his administration and take it to July 2023 elections, four years after he routed the Leftists under Alexis Tsipras, who paid the price for breaking anti-austerity vows.
Mitsotakis, despite repeated sniping from his rival, has consistently won high marks for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and has begun to bring back a staggering economy with further easing of a lenient lockdown.
But he said he wants to be judged on his overall record, according to Kathimerini, and not just crisis management although he's reportedly getting advice to jolt his opponents again with Tsipras unable to make a dent against him.
Supporters of an early election also argue that a return to near normal-life in 2022 could hurt the government if people no longer feel a sense of sticking together for a common good.
They're said to want an election in September which would, if he won, take Mitsotakis' government into 2025 and reap the benefit of people coming off summer vacations and freeing themselves of the terror of the Coronavirus as vaccinations ramp up.
Those who want early elections, the paper said, think another rout of SYRIZA would end Tsipras' reign as the leftists leader and even take down the party, leaving New Democracy without any real rivals, a dynasty creator.
The former dominant PASOK Socialists are already defunct, their veterans now leading a shrunken center-left Movement for Change (KINAL) party that is politically irrelevant with some in New Democracy thinking it could lean toward the center-right unless Tsipras holds on.
There's also reportedly talk of yet another Cabinet mini-reshuffle ahead of the annual Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in September that was shut down in 2020 as the pandemic raged, an event that sees the country's leader give what is essentially a State of the State address and the limelight for him.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.