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With the state telecom monopoly crippled, Lebanon may soon go offline
BEIRUT – The state’s failure to provide more than a few hours of electricity each day across the country has crippled major businesses and service providers — among them Ogero, leaving Lebanon on...
Omar Tamo, 24 August 2021
Bottled water scarcity sets in as shortages force companies to slash production, distribution
BEIRUT – Supermarkets across Lebanon have been hit by a shortage of bottled water amid production issues resulting from crippling countrywide fuel shortages. “We have slashed our production in...
Ghada Alsharif, 24 August 2021
The Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Establishment has announced that it will implement a “severe” electricity rationing schedule due to its inability to secure diesel to run its generators. Rationing will affect customers in the Chouf, Aley, Jbeil, Kesrouan and Metn, it said
24 August 2021
Protesters have gathered outside the Association of Banks in Lebanon headquarters in Beirut to denounce banking restrictions illegally imposed since the onset of the financial crisis, the NNA reports, adding that tensions are high between the protesters and security forces present
24 August 2021
Over a week after sustaining burns in the Aug. 15 Akkar fuel tanker explosion, Syrian national Ibrahim Orfali succumbed to his injuries and passed away last night. Orfali’s doctors had been waiting for his condition to stabilize so he could travel abroad for treatment
24 August 2021
Caretaker health minister raids warehouse in Nabatieh
BEIRUT — Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan on Monday night confiscated a large quantity of medicines, baby milk and diapers from a warehouse in Toul, Nabatieh. Here’s what we know: ...
24 August 2021
Gas stations have started selling fuel at prices reflecting the LL8,000 subsidy rate, with 20 liters of 98-octane gasoline now LL132,400, of 95-octane LL128,200 and of diesel LL98,800. The pump prices differ slightly from price list the Energy Ministry issued Sunday
24 August 2021
World Bank assistance agreement, unions up pressure, schools to meet in person: Everything you need to know today
The Lebanese government has agreed to pay out long-delayed World Bank cash assistance in US dollars, resolving a major obstacle to the program’s implementation. A $246 million World Bank-funded...
