A Platform We Desperately Need For the Upcoming #Elections

As elections are approaching, we have everything from informational videos on the electoral process, poll-based apps, apps that inform you further on the candidates and their programs, but the one missing platform that no one has bothered develop yet, at least not to my knowledge, is one that tracks down every candidate's political statements and alliances throughout the past 5 or 10 years. If going through all candidates is a hassle, the simplest thing is…

#Elections2018: Polling Stations Still ill-equipped To Accommodate People with Disabilities

Elections are in a couple of weeks and Lebanese with disabilities won't be able to vote at the majority of polling stations because they are ill-equipped to accommodate citizens with disabilities. Tens of people were protesting in Beirut's Riad el Solh square asking the government to fulfill their promises and guarantee an accessible voting process for people with disabilities, but in vain ... Lebanon signed the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities…
Critiques

Updated Working Hours for Government Employees

7 years ago
Minister of Social Affairs announced yesterday a new schedule for government employees that goes as such: Monday till Thursday from 7:30AM till 3:15PM Friday from 8AM till 11AM In other words, they will be only ...
Baladi

#ForwardWithLebanon: Lebanon and the EU

7 years ago
Since 2011, it feels like most of the work being done by the international community in Lebanon, has been geared towards refugees. While the refugee crisis has required a lot of support from the rest ...
Critiques

Lack of BDL Housing Loans (Isken) is a Serious Problem

7 years ago
It is still not clear how the total amount for housing loan subsidies for 2018 has been completely used up in just one month but as a result of that, banks are no longer accepting ...
Critiques

Prominent Activist Take On The 24/7 Electricity Electoral Promises

7 years ago
Not only are some candidates’ electoral videos lacking in credibility but they are even lacking in creativity. Take a look at LOGI’s awesome video on the proposed oil & gas draft laws and compare it ...
Critiques

Blocking an Ambulance To Make Way for an Armored Convoy

7 years ago
Last week, I was stuck in traffic right next to an ambulance waiting for armed men in civilian clothes to clear the way. I have no idea if the ambulance was in a rush or ...
Elections2018

Remembering April 13 1975: The Missing Have Been Absent yet Somehow Still Present

7 years ago
Thousands of Lebanese disappeared and have been missing since April 13 1975, their names are still on electoral lists but they’re not here. Their families are still looking for answers but the government has yet ...
Beirut

Controversial Article 49 of the 2018 Budget Paving the Way for Naturalization?

7 years ago
You’d expect the Lebanese parliament to make the new 2018 Lebanese budget available online or in the papers, especially that it’s the first budget we pass since 2005 but I couldn’t find it anywhere and ...
Business

List of Donors at the #CEDRE Conference

7 years ago
Lebanon received more than $11 billion between loans and grants at the CEDRE conference last week, in a bid to support development projects and reforms in the country. We were looking for investments between $16 ...
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