Posted By
Najib
Oct 01, 2020 04:35
Our foreign currency reserves have reached a critical level and the Central Bank was expected to stop subsidizing fuel, wheat and medicine a while back. The Beirut port blast delayed things a bit, but there are serious talks now about no longer subsidizing the fuel, especially after smuggling to Syria has resumed. Let's face it: the authorities are too incompetent to stop the smuggling, and there are parties facilitating the matter even, so the only…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 28, 2020 05:24
France's youngest president ever Emmanuel Macron held a news conference today to discuss the situation in Lebanon and accused the country's political leaders of collective betrayal for failing to form a government within the agreed-on deadline. I'm pretty sure Macron is smart enough to know his plan had no chances of working out, because he's asking those in power, those responsible of decades of theft, corruption & incompetence, to admit they did wrong, and hold…
Critiques
3 years ago
Lebanon’s Education Ministry received 8,000 laptops as a gift back in 2017, and they’re still stuck in the ministry because the Microsoft Enterprise agreement was never renewed, or at least that’s what they’re claiming. The ...
Critiques
3 years ago
The Taef agreement did not allocate the Finance Ministry to any sect, and no one has the right to claim it, not the Shiites, not the Christians, not the Sunnites, not The Druze. What’s happening ...
Critiques
3 years ago
A friend of mine was traveling to Beirut two days ago, when he was asked to fill out an online survey as required by the Health Ministry. When he went in to check out the ...
Critiques
3 years ago
Hassan Diab’s government has mismanaged the COVID-19 pandemic since day1. Yes, we did take quick measures but that’s about it, and just like everything in this country, there was no proper follow-up, no planning whatsoever, ...
Critiques
3 years ago
A month ago, Lebanese Football player Mohamad Atwi, who plays for Al Ansar, was injured by a stray bullet that hit him in the head. He was quickly rushed to the hospital where he underwent ...
Critiques
3 years ago
More and more Lebanese are trying to escape the country in search of a new life, but not all of them have the means or are eligible to apply for immigration and go through the ...
Critiques
3 years ago
A massive explosion in August 4, followed by a small fire and today’s massive fire almost a month later. How can one be so incompetent? so negligent? so stupid? They had over a month to ...
Critiques
3 years ago
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned today former Lebanese ministers Yusuf Finyanus and Ali Hassan Khalil, who provided material support to Hizballah and engaged in corruption. Why did ...