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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 – A sudden turnabout in China that saw the major port city of Shanghai locked down over resurging COVID-19 cases is slowing the delivery of products to Greece and further upsetting an already struggling supply chain.
Getting goods shipped around the world had become difficult in 2021 when activity was trying to return after lockdowns in 2020 that closed most non-essential businesses and slowed sea traffic.
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine also impacting the supplies of wheat and sunflower oil and other commodities, the Shanghai Lockdown has thrown another monkey wrench into the works, noted Kathimerini in a report.
Vassilis Korkidis, Chairman of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told the paper that delays in delivery of orders through China are up to 14 days and could become worse if the lockdown is prolonged.
Especially being impacted are clothing and hotel equipment and while there aren’t any shortages the problem is getting them delivered, which could be a problem, the spring tourism season already underway in Greece.
Delays from major suppliers in electrical and electronic appliance deliveries are about a week but a senior official at one of the sector’s leaders, who wasn’t named, told the paper delays in deliveries from smaller suppliers are longer. The closing of major car industries’ plants in Shanghai and other cities in China with lockdowns could mean that new vehicles won’t be deliverd for up to a year, making them old on arrival, although other freight is better off.
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.
NICOSIA - A meeting between the ministers of energy for Cyprus and Israel - George Papanastasiou and Eli Cohen - led to an agreement that the countries would make an underwater electric cable link a top priority, linking them to Europe.
LONDON (AP) — The British Museum on Thursday appointed National Portrait Gallery chief Nicholas Cullinan as its new director, as the 265-year-old institution grapples with the apparent theft of hundreds of artifacts and growing international scrutiny of its collection.
ATHENS - The European Union needs to get involved in the case of the two-year jail sentence given ethnic Greek Fredi Beleri who was elected Mayor of the seaside town of Himare and said the trial was a farce to get him and protect Prime Minister Edi Rama’s business friends.
Brace yourself for what could be another scorching summer in Greece as scientists are anxious that a warm winter - the warmest January recorded - and climate change will continue to bring weather anomalies.