Public Opinion

They should note their disagreement on the taxation of banks and have lively discussions on financial regulation. Between countries with very different financial systems but had made ambitious commitments at their previous summit (Pittsburgh, 2009), the whole purpose of the meetings in Toronto will be to maintain unity. Canada, host of the meetings, has...
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After many attempts of MOREP president to save the Order of Physician in Lebanon (LOP) from political influences and interferences, the vote run yesterday in democratic way. It was like the Political Souk, said Abi Saab, with many political machinery campings around the “House of Physicians” (Beit-EL-Toubib). Abi Saab: Not for Political Souk and...
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Several thousand supporters of women’s rights, up to 4,000 demonstrated last Saturday in the streets of Brussels. This “World March of Women” was organized to demand the particular economic and financial autonomy of women or denounce violence against them. The supporters ended at the courthouse, where a list of demands was presented to several political...
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After each head to head meeting of the two divided groups of 8 and 14th of March covered by local TV’s, Lebanese public opinion becomes disgusted of these politicians. “Their dialogs are too popular and vulgar that do not fit with the principles of politic”, Cheikh Majid Abi Saab said. “Lebanese people should change...
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The Maronite Christian community, the followers of the Saint, celebrates this year the 16 centuries presence in the middle east, adding to the previous period of Christianity of 4 centuries mainly located in Lebanon, Mesopotamy (Syria, Jordan and Iraq) and Antioch. Saint Maron, born in the middle of the 4th century was a priest who...
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Beyonce and Madonna are among the stars participating in the telethon on Friday for Haiti. Coldplay, Jay-Z, Rihanna, Springsteen, Sting, Mary J Blige, Bono of U2, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys and Christina Aguilera are also among the dozens of artists who will play for “Hope for Haiti”. The Lebanese singers are not participating yet...
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The Haitian government announces 75,000 dead, 250,000 wounded and one million homeless, a week after the earthquake. This is the first official provisional results of the Haitian authorities while the U.S. military had estimated that the number of dead could reach 200,000 deaths. Few Lebanese survivors came back from Haiti by MEA airlines to Lebanon According to...
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The population of Port-au-Prince now struggle just to survive, the urgency now is to avoid a massive health catastrophe: without access to safe water, sanitation, risk of epidemics increases. Injured and sick patients were waiting unattended for days Nearly a week after the earthquake, “it is as if a bomb had exploded,” testified the U.S. ambassador...
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Five days after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti, killed tens of thousands of dead, and “one of the worst humanitarian disasters in decades,” as described by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The international rescue teams became involved in that race to rescue people, to revive under the rubble of collapsed buildings in the Port-au-Prince, while...
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Dr Abi Saab: “the measures taken is not enough, Haitians are frustrated, is this the largest rescue operation that rich countries can make? we can’t figure it out” With thousands of Haitians began to fear the possibility of another quake, frightened of the gangs of looting yesterday to leave the Port-au-Prince, the devastated capital in...
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The U.S. military has a strong presence in Haiti, with the deployment of thousands of troops, warships including a nuclear aircraft carrier, and medicalized broken teams to crisis situations. The United States has established a powerful military force in Haiti This action is to help victims of the earthquake. Barack Obama promised on Wednesday morning a...
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Between 40,000 and 50,000 people perished in the quake. These are the first official figures given on Thursday in Panama, by Xavier Castellanos, director for the Americas of the International Federation of Red Cross. According to the UN, 300,000 people lost their housing in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, where 10% of homes were destroyed in...
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Tuesday 23:53, Lebanon time, when the earthquake struck… A Lebanese mother whose son with his family lives in Haiti, couldn’t sleep at that time, she had an unusual headache, she opened the TV to pass the time and suddenly she saw a report about the earthquake, lately she received a phone call, his son and...
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Lebanon has the highest production of CO2 compared to its surface area in the region, the CDM projects proposed by Lebanon does not propose to limit the CO2 production by industries (e.g. cementeries of Chekka), neither the permissions to introduce bio or electrical cars, private wind turbine power stations etc.. All what politicians want...
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In Lebanon, the media are fully controlled by the authority, nothing is published without their permissions. The past and present concerned ministers pretend that they are making their best to keep the liberty of the media and increasing the power of official media so far. As an example, Tele Liban and Radio Liban both...
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