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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.
NEW YORK – U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer joined Cardinal Timothy Dolan and numerous union, civic and business leaders for a rally opposite the Statue of Liberty in Lower Manhattan on June 17 to urge the House of Representatives to finally pass comprehensive immigration reform in July.
A statement issued by Schumer’s office said the bill “strengthens our border, offers a hard-earned path to citizenship, reduces our deficit and provides a huge boost to New York City’s and the country’s economy.”
Schumer declared that “immigrants have always been the greatest engine of economic growth, innovation, and renewal that this country has ever had…And the bottom line is: in order for America to continue to be the greatest nation in the world, we must fix our broken immigration system.”
Speaking to Greek and Greek-American media after the rally he said “the more Greeks there are in New York, the better New York it. It would apply to the Cypriots also.”
Schumer added an amendment to the bill that will allow Greek nationals to apply for a visa to work in the United States to provide Greek language instruction and assistance to communities, educational institutions, and businesses.
“My middle name is Ellis,” he told TNH, “named after an uncle who was named after Ellis Island.” On his mother’s side he is a sixth-generation American, and “on my father’s side I’m third.”
Schumer said the purpose of the rally is to show “the broad support immigration has in New York and around America. There can’t be a more fitting setting than by the Statue of Liberty which for generations has stood for the fact that we want immigrants to come,” he said.
“The bill is bipartisan. I led the Democratic side, Senator John McCain led the Republican side. We don’t always see alike on issues, but we came together on this bill,” he said.
“We are here to make a final plea to the House of Representatives to pass this bill. They know it’s the right thing to do substantively and politically,” Schumer said, noting with the bill’s broad support, candidates should not fear the Tea Party.
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.