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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 – Alternate Finance Minister Thodoris Skylakakis addressed a call to investors to take advantage, in time, of the loan tool of the Recovery and Resilience Fund, as long as interest rates are as low as they are today (0.35% for very small and small businesses and 1% for medium and large ones), at an event on the “Opportunities and Prospects of ‘Greece 2.0”, held in Rhodes.
Referring to the innovations that characterize the loan part of “Greece 2.0”, he pointed out: “It has some characteristics that have never existed in an investment instrument in Greece, nor in any other European country. Ministers from other European states (e.g. Lithuania) are asking for the know-how to do something similar in their country. A new element in this investment tool is that the investment decision is made when the company submits the complete plan, while within 2.5-3 months it has signed a contract with the Bank and received the money provided for in this contract. Another innovation is that in this particular process there is no signature of a public official or a politician, from the time the company submits the plan until it receives the money.”
Skylakakis emphasized that this is a tool that can accommodate investment plans totaling 30 billion euros. So far, proposals have been submitted, with a budget of 8.22 billion euros, of which projects amounting to 1.8 billion euros have already been contracted, while the rest will be contracted within the next 3-4 months.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
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LOS ANGELES – The UCLA Stavros Niarchos Foundation Center for the Study of Hellenic Culture presents a captivating evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Alkinoos Ioannidis, who will perform at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall on Saturday, April 27, 7:30 PM, in a solo concert.
ATHENS - The "OLYMPOS - Global Spiritual Center" Association presents on Saturday, April 6, at 6:00 pm, at the "Antonis Tritsis" Amphitheatre of the Cultural Center of the Municipality of Athens, 50, Acadimias Street, the truly ingenious funding proposal for the construction of Heptapolis in the wider area of Delphi, entitled "World Green Taxation Fund".
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.