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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 — SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance party leader Alexis Tsipras on Friday said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' handling of Greece's demands at the EU Summit was akin to a "nonchalant" attitude as opposed to defending national interests.
It is the very same nonchalant attitude Mitsotakis exhibits when it comes to the pandemic, Tsipras added on his critique after the end of a two-day EU Summit on Friday, which the party called a diplomatic defeat for Greece earlier on Friday. The Prime Minister "instead celebrates, stating that the EU took a step forward and that sanctions against Turkey, which the PM himself targeted, should not be regarded as an end in itself," he stressed.
The government has so far failed across the board in all the recent major issues, Tsipras added, including managing the coronavirus pandemic, as Greece now stands above the European average of new deaths per population, he noted further. The same applies in matter of national economy, he said, as Greece now registers the highest recession in the EU over the last quarter.
Moreover, "the government is a victim of its own ideological obsessions and appears to be far removed from the citizens' dramatic current predicament, and is leading the country to a course of a perpetual crisis, with rapid income reductions, rising unemployment, closed businesses and social inequalities."
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
CLOSTER, NJ – The well-attended Greek Independence Day Celebration in Closter, NJ, took place on March 25, beginning with the Flag Raising Ceremony at Ruckman Park in Closter.
ALBANY – New York State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R, C-Staten Island/Brooklyn) on March 26 was joined in Albany by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America to recognize Greek Independence Day and the 50th anniversary of the illegal Turkish invasion and continued occupation of Cyprus.
ATHENS - Historic member of PASOK and passionate advocate of the recognition of Pontian Greek genocide Michalis Charalambidis died on Wednesday aged 73.
ATHENS - While the New Democracy government denied audio files from the 2023 head-on train crash in Tempe which killed 57 had been tampered with, five managers at the state-run OSE railways agency reportedly had access to them.
FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Greek Cypriots of New Jersey under the auspices of the Federation of Cypriot American Organizations, the Consulate General of the Republic of Cyprus in New York and Consul General of Cyprus Michalis Firillas will commemorate the 69th Anniversary of the EOKA Liberation Struggle of Cyprus from British Colonial Rule 1955-1959, with a memorial service at the Greek Orthodox Church of the Ascension, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, NJ, on Sunday, March 31.