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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 – Their earlier calls ignored, Greek health care workers stepped up their demand for better working conditions to help cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, this time some 50 of them blocking traffic on a major capital road.
They were medical workers of the capital’s Red Cross (Erythros Stavros) from the Panhellenic Federation of State Hospital Employees (POEDIN) and staff who stepped into Kifissias Avenue on Dec. 21.
OEDIN chief Michalis Giannakos urged drivers to step out of their cars to applaud healthcare workers in an act of solidarity during what turned into only a few minute disruption he called a “symbolic protest.”
In April, hundreds of healthcare workers demonstrated to protest at working conditions and lack of manpower and equipment in public hospitals during the pandemic that is now in a second wave.
At that first protest, they held up signs demanding more staff and protection for themselves as frontline workers and additional help. Now public hospitals Intensive Care Units (ICUs) are nearly overwhelmed, the New Democracy government not moving to take over private hospitals as vowed.
Doctors, nurses and other hospital workers also gathered outside hospitals and the country’s health ministry to demand job protection, salary raises and the hiring of more medical staff to fight against COVID-19 at the first protest.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
BERLIN (AP) — At least five people were killed Wednesday when a bus headed from Berlin to Switzerland came off a highway in eastern Germany and ended up on its side, authorities said.
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.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A fundraiser for President Joe Biden on Thursday in New York City that also stars Barack Obama and Bill Clinton is raising a whopping $25 million, setting a record for the biggest haul for a political event, his campaign said.
FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — Michelangelo’s David has been a towering figure in Italian culture since its completion in 1504.
ATHENS — Police in Greece clashed late Wednesday with Communist-backed demonstrators who tried to prevent a concert by U.