Posted By
Najib
Apr 26, 2019 04:56
Customs head Badri Daher has been bragging about this auction sale for a week now, claiming the Customs are committed to fighting corruption, and taking additional steps to enhance productivity and reduce cost. During yesterday's sale, the customs made nearly $850,000 in profits by selling off abandoned goods worth over 2 million dollars. This is the first ever held auction at the port. While this is a good initiative which helped liberate over 74 containers…
Posted By
Najib
Apr 19, 2019 06:35
It's great to see this group of young men and women cleaning up the Qadisha valley but it's also quite unfortunate that this valley, labeled as a World Heritage Site by the United Nations in 1998, is not being taken care off. The valley is as rich historically as it is visually but has been threatened for years now by nearby developments and pollution and might lose its status if it remains neglected. Qadisha Valley…
Critiques
6 years ago
The Ministry of Education has requested from all schools to install surveillance cameras in an attempt to combat cheating and academic misconduct during the official exams. According to the Ministry, the schools will have to ...
Critiques
6 years ago
One of the few good things that actually came out of the previous Telecom Ministries was the reduction in prices of the data bundles and the free 60 minutes for postpaid lines, but the new ...
Critiques
6 years ago
I’m sure you’ve seen the joke circulating around the The Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission and how it’s as useless as as the transport ministry’s railway department but as a matter of fact, it’s not. I ...
Critiques
6 years ago
As if we weren’t getting humiliated enough every time we decide to travel from and to Beirut’s airport, the latest measures implemented at the airport forbid any taxis, except authorized ones, from driving past the ...
Critiques
6 years ago
The hot topic at the moment in Lebanon is the proposed plan to reform the electricity sector which has been pending for over 9 years now. A ministerial committee was formed to study the plan ...
Automotive
6 years ago
This is a daily occurrence on the Dbayyeh maritime road leading to the Antelias bridge. The road on the way back to Jounieh is closed in front of the ISF barracks yet some “privileged” cars ...
Critiques
6 years ago
Update: Turns out it’s a LADA campaign. Bad taste or Hilarious? It didn’t make me laugh to be honest because this tendency to thanking neighbors and foreign countries is becoming sickening. I wonder when this ...
Critiques
6 years ago
AUB students and activists interrupted a lecture by the World Bank’s Vice President to protest against the Bisri Dam. I wrote about this topic a month ago and was curious as to why the World ...
