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IMF negotiations, long-delayed ration cards are unexpected talking points during cabinet’s second meeting
BEIRUT— Negotiations with the International Monetary Fund and Lebanon’s long-delayed ration card program were unexpected topics of discussion on Wednesday during the Lebanese ministers’ second...
Wael Taleb, 6 October 2021
Apartment prices in Beirut in 2021: How much is an apartment in Ras Beirut?
This is part II of a three-part series on property prices in Beirut. Part I focused on Achrafieh, and the final part will focus on Downtown Beirut. In Ras Beirut, two major trends prevail....
Guillaume Boudisseau, 6 October 2021
Education minister outlines new compensation package for public school teachers in bid to avoid strike
BEIRUT — Education Minister Abbas Halabi has presented a financial proposal, including salary increases and other benefits, meant to placate the demands of public school teachers, who threatened to...
Tala Ramadan, 6 October 2021
The Economy Ministry hiked bread prices. A large, 820-gram bread bundle at bakeries now costs LL4,500 — a 11.6 percent per-gram price increase — and a small, 375-gram bundle costs LL3,000, a 6.2 percent increase per gram. Prices at shops and supermarkets are LL500 more per bundle
6 October 2021
Lebanon has registered 796 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Seven people have died, raising the death toll to 8,370
6 October 2021
Ogero has announced a shutdown of services in Choueifat, Aley, adding that its generators in the area had been overloaded amid the prolonged public electricity cuts. The state-owned telecom provider said its teams are working to fix the issue
6 October 2021
Graverobbers struck the area of Jouma, Akkar, L’Orient-Le Jour reports. A Bzibina Municipality statement says coffins were opened and thefts occurred, without providing further details. Jouma Municipal Union President Rony Hage called on the authorities to punish the perpetrators
6 October 2021
Georges Brax, spokesperson for the gas station owners' syndicate, told L’Orient Today that Energy Minister Walid Fayad will return to Lebanon tonight and sign the new fuel price list. “Once it is signed, fuel importing companies will distribute fuel normally tomorrow,” Brax said
6 October 2021
Demonstrators face off with riot police outside Downtown Beirut bank
BEIRUT — More than 100 demonstrators were confronted by riot police as they threw rocks at a Bank of Beirut branch in Downtown Beirut Wednesday, claiming the head of the Association of Lebanese...
Richard SALAME, 6 October 2021
Approximately 100-150 protesters are in front of a Downtown Beirut bank and have begun throwing rocks. Protesters claim Association of Banks in Lebanon head Salim Sfeir is inside
6 October 2021
Fuel importing companies did not distribute fuel today and many gas stations are closed as they await an updated fuel price list from the Energy Ministry, the NNA reports Fadi Abou Chakra, the head of fuel distributors’ syndicate, as saying
6 October 2021
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will be in Beirut tomorrow for meetings with Lebanese leaders, spokespersons at the presidency and the Foreign Ministry confirmed to L’Orient Today
6 October 2021
Following a meeting between Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Corinne Fleischer, the World Food Program's regional director, this morning, the Grand Serail announced via its Twitter account that “The WFP will support approximately 800,000 Lebanese individuals by the end of this year"
6 October 2021
Scores of protesters have gathered in front of the central bank's headquarters in Hamra, calling for an end to commercial banks' informal capital controls and the elimination of Circular 151
6 October 2021
Are public school students at risk of missing another academic year?
BEIRUT — “We’ve seen what delays in Lebanon mean. We have seen this in the judicial system and now in the education system,” Asma Mourad, a mother of two public school students, told L’Orient...
Tala Ramadan, 6 October 2021
TankerTrackers.com says a third Iranian ship carrying fuel destined for Lebanon has arrived at the Syrian port of Baniyas. The oil export monitoring company reported the arrival just before 4 a.m. local time
6 October 2021
Progress on public schools reopening, RHUH strike escalates, second cabinet meeting: What to know today
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Hope rose yesterday that public schools would reopen as early as next week after Parliament’s Education Committee reportedly said...
