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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 — Greece set a new all-time low with an interest rate of 1.22 pct and a record demand of more than 18 billion euros with the reopening of a 10-year bond issue on Wednesday.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras, commenting on the results of the Greek state’s new exit in capital markets, noted that Greece recorded another significant success in the field of capital markets, offering proof that markets acknowledged the government’s coherent economic plan and its efficient implementation to deal with the adverse economic and social consequences of the pandemic. He noted that markets also applauded the holistic strategy drafted by the government for the speedier possible economic recovery so that the country achieved a strong, sustainable and socially fair growth.
In the domestic electronic secondary bond market, the 10-year bond yield was 1.13 pct, unchanged from the previous day, with the yield spread between the 10-year Greek and German benchmark bonds rising slightly to 1.60 pct from 1.54 pct on Tuesday. The German Bund yielded 0.47 pct. Turnover was 40 million euros of which 6.0 million were buy orders.
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.
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.
Mykonos’ run has been going on for a long time, bringing hordes of tourists, but it’s being cut down by its reputation for being rowdy, expensive, overcrowded and gouging diners while businesses evade taxes.