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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 – With temporary casinos in Cyprus packing in customers while Europe’s biggest is going to be built there, Greek casinos had a bad first half of the year for 2018, with visits and money spent taking a tumble, continuing a trend.
Another major casino is also planned for the $8 billion development of the former Hellenikon International Airport site on Athens’ coast but unidentified sources told Kathimerini that the country’s nine casinos had 1,333,500 visitors from January through June, down 2.3 percent over the previous year. The only places seeing a bump were in Thessaloniki, Parnitha and Corfu.
Total bets in the nine casinos amounted to 740 million euros, an annual reduction by 1.8 percent from the first six months of 2017. In January-June last year bets had added up to 754.2 million euros ($874.14 million),
The casinos had Gross Gaming Revenues (GGR) of 116.2 million euros ($136.31 million,) down from 120 million ($140.76 million) over the first six months of 20917, another shrinkage of 3.2 percent. For all of 2017, their GGR fell 3.8 percent.
There was an increase in gross revenues only in the casinos of Thessaloniki, Thrace and Corfu, the paper said.
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.
NASHVILLE, ΤΝ – With a special event organized by the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy - U.
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.