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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 — Companies representing 69 pct of the total turnover of Greek enterprises were directly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic as a result of lockdown restrictions and a shut down of operations, a survey conducted by Grant Thornton said on Monday.
The survey focused on the expected impact on economic conditions due to the crisis, particularly on the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and companies' liquidity. Grant Thornton said that companies with an accumulated turnover of 32.9 billion euros (11 pct of total turnover), employing around 1.1 million workers (25 pct of total workforce) temporarily shut down operations due to the pandemic. The country's GDP is expected to contract by 8.5 pct in 2020, reflecting the impact of the pandemic on high added-value sectors, such as tourism, transport and hospitality. The tourism sector is expected to shrink by 52 pct this year, the survey said. The survey also analysed a sample of 17,000 enterprises with an accumulated turnover of more than 50 pct of total turnover in the country, which showed that these companies expected a 12.4 pct decline in their turnover this year and a 39 pct drop in EBITDA. Liquidity is projected to fall by 5.6 billion euros in 2020.
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.