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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 – Coming on the heels of reports that Greece’s children are the most obese in the European Union, the head of UNICEF’s first office in the country said they are third-poorest in the bloc and ill-served for generations by every government.
Luciana Calestini told Kathimerini of the findings by the United Nations Children Fund that confirmed just poor the quality of life is for Greek children, the country still struggling to recover from a 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis which devastated
Greece has the worst record in the European Union for childhood obesity and the third worst for childhood poverty, Luciano Calestini, the representative heading UNICEF’s first Greek country office told Kathimerini.
He said it’s attributable to every government, none moving to do more to help the country’s children, noting that in the areas of quality of education, health and services that the government spends only 2,688 euros ($2953) annually per child compared to the EU average of 7,000 euros ($7689.)
He said it was because of an “accumulation” of more than 70 years of governments failing to give children what they need and that it’s still not clear “what the national agenda for children is and who is in charge,” slighting the Education Ministry.
“We are not prioritizing our children,” he said, urging Greece to “rebalance” its fiscal choices and warning that continuing to overlook their needs “risks national self-injury.”
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.