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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 – He’s known for rocking hard with group Motley Crue, but Greek-American drummer Tommy Lee has a tender side for animals and sent a letter to Greek Agriculture Minister Makis Voridis petitioning for a ban on donkey rides on the island of Santorini.
“I’m honored to have been born in Athens, and wherever I tour with Motley Crue, I proudly proclaim my Greek heritage. But there’s an issue souring the reputation of Greece that I hope you’ll help resolve: the sickening abuse of broken-down donkeys and mules made to lug tourists up steep hills on Santorini. I visited the island this summer on a yacht trip – we docked there for two days, and I refused to ride a donkey up to the city center,” the drummer said in his letter to Voridis, according to music website Billboard.
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“I understand that you have the power to stop this cruelty and make Santorini hospitable to both tourists and animals. Please put an immediate end to the old-school cruelty of ‘animal taxis’,” Lee added after photos showing donkey struggling to carry overweight tourists up a cliff there were on social media.
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.
NEW YORK – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus attended a press conference at the Consulate General of Greece in New York on March 28 to continue to spread the word about postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections.
LONDON - A British Airways flight that started in Athens on January 3 just missed hitting a drone over the Kent countryside in England, coming within 5 feet at a height of 9,600 feet, the plane carrying 180 passengers and traveling 250 miles an hour.
It won’t pass through some French cities and towns that didn’t want it but the Olympic Torch for the Paris 2024 Games will be lit April 16 in Olympia by priestesses wearing outfits that some on social media found weren’t just right.
ATHENS - There were no injuries nor damage reported despite its intensity as a 5.