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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 — Haiti was the first country to recognize the Greek Revolution in 1821, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said in a tweet on Tuesday, ahead of the commemorative events on Thursday.
"It was first to abolish slavery and first to recognize the Greek Revolution," Sakellaropoulou said on Twitter. "Through a letter of her then president Jean Pierre Boyer to [leading Greek scholar Adamantios] Korais, Haiti was the first to express her enthusiasm for Greece, which 'drew up arms' to gain its freedom and its place among nations."
The letter was dated January 15, 1822 and was a response to a letter by Korais and other prominent Greeks living in Paris to the president of Haiti, asking for help for the revolt against the Ottoman Empire. The recommendation for this step came from general Marquis de Lafayete, who had fought in the American Revolutionary War, and the Greek Orthodox Bishop of Blaise, Grigorios.
Despite its poverty, Haiti sent 45 tons of coffee for Greece to sell in order to procure arms. It also sent 100 Haitian volunteers, but they died during the voyage to Greece.
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.