Andros

Jet-Set wedding in New York: The grandson of Greece’s greatest shipping magnate marries in Central Park with billionaires and an open Party

Top event planners in New York are in full swing, as next Saturday’s wedding, starring high-profile figures, has become the talk of the town.

After a small, intimate wedding with 26 guests in the Embiricos family’s ancestral homeland of Andros, George Embiricos and Jaclyn Vernet will celebrate their union in New York’s largest park.

Tax inspectors shut shops in tourist areas

Tax authorities are cracking down on evasion by retailers in the country's main tourist destinations, temporarily shutting down dozens of businesses daily.

Tax officials are checking all card payments made in June to find whether businesses failed to disclose sales in their quarterly VAT statements that were submitted at the end of July.

Vicious crime on Andros, elderly man strangled and burnt

A man, aged 89 years, was found strangled on the island of Andros, the northernmost island of the Greek Cyclades archipelago. The assailants had killed the man before trying to burn his body. Residents of the Gavrio village of Andros, where the crime took place, are in a state of shock as relatives and friends of the deceased are being called to testify.