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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 – Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday met with the board of the Hellenic Union of Municipal Enterprises for Water Supply and Sewage and expressed his concern over “successive explosions in prices, including the water rates, due to the tremendous increases in energy costs.”
“I am very worried that this tremendous explosion of the energy cost will result in a chain reaction [affecting] the price not only of electricity but also of basic goods and water,” he said.
Tsipras said there was “tremendous speculation” in energy and explained that “based on our calculations, the excessive profits of power companies from the summer to the end of spring will be around 1.5 billion euros”.
Finally, he re-introduced a proposal for the reduction of VAT on water to 6 pct “to avoid the hikes in water prices for consumers but also give municipal enterprises some relief so they can avoid bankruptcy.
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.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.