Posted By
Najib
Aug 07, 2017 09:57
First Tunisia approves a new law that provides women with the measures ecessary to seek protection from acts of violence by their husbands, relatives and others, then Jordan's parliament finally votes to eliminate Article 308, a law that allows rapists to escape punishment provided they marry their victims. Meanwhile, and despite the numerous campaigns held in the past years, the Lebanese parliament has not yet abolished Article 522 of Lebanon’s penal code. The article protects…
Posted By
Najib
Aug 06, 2017 05:05
Mona Baalbaki, the previous head of Pharmacy in Rafic Hariri Hospital "has been sacked by the General Disciplinary Council for stealing a large quantity of health ministry-donated cancer medicines from the hospital and selling them for hundreds of millions of Lebanese pounds". The worst part, as per the same report, is that she was replacing stolen medicines with expired drugs given to a larger number of cancer patients, mostly women and children, without their knowledge…
Critiques
8 years ago
Instead of controlling the valet companies and fining those who are breaking the law (Probably all of them), the Ministry of Interior & Tourism agreed in a joint statement to fix the valet service price ...
Critiques
8 years ago
The Ministry of Telecommunications announced reductions on the mobile lines prices, including a significant drop in prices for the prepaid lines from $25 to $3.3. You can also get a new Golden number now for ...
Animals & Wildlife
8 years ago
Few months ago, I attended a dolphin show for the first time ever in Sharm el Sheikh and even though I had signed up for the full experience, I ended up not going (with Brian) ...
Critiques
8 years ago
I headed to Broumana on Saturday to visit the Mar Chaaya farm and show Brian the animals there. I didn’t get expect the farm to be that small and the visit to be that short ...
Critiques
8 years ago
Every since I started the blog, I promised myself to stay away from political and religious issues because they only cause arguments & hard feelings and they’re impossible-to-win battles. Discussing such sensitive issues only sends ...
Critiques
8 years ago
The government approved a decision to change working hours for public sector employees to become 35 hours per week whereas Saturday will no longer be a working day. This means that the schedule will change ...
Beirut
8 years ago
I have no idea why anyone would do such a thing but the Wall of Kindness that was installed in Sodeco a month ago has been vandalized on three occasions now, forcing those who came ...
Critiques
8 years ago
No one really knows what’s happening at the Burj Hammoud landfill but the mountain is slowly being flattened and dumped into the Mediterranean. Here’s a recent picture taken by a friend showing how the mountain ...
