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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 – Routed in July 7, 2019 snap elections and falling further behind the New Democracy Conservatives, major opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras said he's plotting a comeback.
"In order to win the elections, SYRIZA must gain the political centre, turning left to gain the centre with a radical, realistic and executable programme," Tsipras said on Sunday, closing the proceedings of the party conference.
Addressing the those present, he stressed: "We do not want to defeat the right in order to return to power but so as to have humanly acceptable labour relations. With decent salaries and rights. In order for the minimum wage to go to 800 euros and to pull up all salary levels. To build a new national health system together, with emphasis on primary care, with better salaries and incentives for young doctors. The small and medium-sized businessman, the self-employed person, the farmer knows that we want to defeat the right in order to support the possibility for them to exist. To help their businesses stay alive and be supported. All Greek citizens know that we want to defeat the right so that justice can return to the country."
He ripped what he called the “brutally conservative policies” of the New Democracy government and said he expects there will be early elections before a scheduled 2024 poll, and that he will again.
“It’s our duty. This government must go away as soon as possible,” Tsipras said, adding that SYRIZA had “learned from its mistakes,” without mentioning he reneged on a 40-point program that got him elected as he also did with anti-austerity promises before hammering workers and pensioners.
He said his party had to sweep New Democracy out of power at the next election. “And that time is not far off,” he said, according to Kathimerini, although he didn't say how he would win the favor of disenchanted voters.
His faltering approach has been to blame Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic rebound that's beginning to take shape.
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.
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.
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.