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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 – Except for the rich, politicians, tax cheats and the privileged, Greece’s long economic crisis has taken such a hard toll that 50 percent of people say they are struggling to get by after being buried by harsh austerity measures.
The ruling Radical Left SYRIZA-led coalition promised to reverse big pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and worker firings but doubled down on them under orders from the country’s creditors to whom Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras surrendered instead of defying as he swore he would do.
He imposed another avalanche of tax hikes in 2016 and more will kick in on Jan. 1 and taxes on low-and-middle income families are in the wings too.
A study by the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki said half of Greeks have financial difficulties each month and 10 percent said they can’t make it.
Only 6.5 percent of respondents reported having no financial problems in December month, a 1 percent increase compared to the same period last year. That was despite a big holiday handout by Tsipras to lower-income pensioners and jobless youth in a frantic bid to turn around his plummeting popularity at a cost of 1.4 billion euros ($1.68 billion) to the budget.
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.