Posted By
Najib
Sep 29, 2021 04:04
If we look back at what happened during the last week: - Hezbollah high-ranking official Wafik Safa issued a threat to Judge Tarek Bitar, who's investigating last year's Beirut port, through an unnamed intermediary who relayed the contents of the message. - Minister Youssef Fenianos filed a lawsuit against Judge Tarek Bitar and accused him of 'abnormal behaviour' and 'double standards'. - Former Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk filed a motion to dismiss the judge. As…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 27, 2021 03:39
Our new labor minister's idea of tackling Lebanon's surging unemployment rate is twofold: - Launch an application that links the labor market with workers, which is useless and a waste of time given that the real problem now is not the recruitment process, but companies going bankrupt and the whole economy collapsing. - Reactivate an agreement with the State of Qatar to secure job opportunities for Lebanese in Qatar. Ideally, this might work but who…
Critiques
3 years ago
Al Jadeed reporter Layal Saad was denied entrance to the Presidential Palace’s press office last week because of a previous incident that took place months ago where Saad referred to the president as ‘Aoun’ and ...
Critiques
3 years ago
Lebanon’s newly appointed information minister, TV star George Kordahi, called on the media in his first official statement to refrain from hosting politicians who claim that we will go to hell. He continued by asking ...
Critiques
3 years ago
The parliamentary law adopted in 2017 was the first to allow expats to cast their votes; however the rules were very poorly publicized, turnout was low, registered voters lists were leaked and the whole process ...
Critiques
3 years ago
Millions of liters of subsidized fuel hidden in underground tanks as well as tons of medicine and baby formula were seized following raids by the Lebanese security forces. The latest raid was carried out by ...
Critiques
3 years ago
Judge Ghada Aoun just issued a search warrant for Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh that expires in a month time, after Salameh refrained from attending several sessions in the case of the illegal money transfers ...
Critiques
3 years ago
Fuel subdivides are over. BDL announced it today and it is now up to the Energy Minister to set new fuel prices, which will be at least 5 or 6 times higher than the current ...
Critiques
3 years ago
The answer is no, at least not in the next 3 to 5 years. As much as I want to believe that the revolution can still bring the Sulta down to its knees, the situation ...
Critiques
3 years ago
The answer would obviously be YES in any other time, but it’s not that simple given the circumstances Lebanon is going through right now. While expats will bring in “fresh” dollars, they will also increase ...
