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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.
NICOSIA — Despite a stubborn COVID-19 and lockdown easing, Cyprus plans to open to tourists from 60 countries on April 1, using a color-coded system to determine what conditions will prevail for them, with one eye on variants, especially from The United Kingdom.
Hotel owners, said The Financial Mirror, are counting on Israelis, where half the population has been vaccinated, as well as domestic tourism from Cypriots while reaching out to those from abroad as well.
Those would be the bridge until the biggest market, the former Colonial ruler the UK, lets travelers out of the country, Cyprus being the favorite destination and home to many British ex-patriates.
Philokypros Rousounides, the Cyprus Hotel Association Director General, said they hope that Israeli tourists will inject needed monies into the island’s Coronavirus-stricken tourism sector, the site reported.
For the UK and Israel, people vaccinated with an EU-approved COVID-19 vaccine will be allowed entry to Cyprus without any other requirement. The UK makes up a third of the island’s 4 million tourist arrivals usually, and Israelis some 7.4 percent annually.
The UK won't let people out until the end of June which will put a crimp in the early part of the summer for Cyprus' economy.
“We are banking on a number of factors, given that Britons may not be allowed to travel in the coming months. We are waiting to see how traffic from Israel will pick up while requesting the government to lift a ban on local bookings,” said Rousounides.
He said that the number of flights for Cyprus from Israel scheduled by airliners for April has significantly increased; however, “we don’t expect to see any real flows of tourists before the end of June”.
Rousounides said 95 percent of hotels are currently shut, as hoteliers waiting to see how bookings pick up in the coming days to decide whether it is worth opening before the summer gets underway.
“The lifting of the ban on overnight stays for Cypriots is an important parameter for any decision since it is estimated that our compatriots will rush to take advantage of incentives given to strengthen domestic tourism that has been extended until the end of May,” he told the site.
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.