Articles by Jeryes S. Khalil

The International Day of Happiness is celebrated throughout the world on the 20th of March.   According to recent studies, Norway ranked first as the world’s happiest country. Happy countries are the ones that have a healthy balance of prosperity, as conventionally measured and social […]

Prime Minister Saad Hariri held talks Monday in Ain el-Tineh with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. State-run National News Agency said talks tackled “the electoral juncture, the electoral law and the political and social situations including the new wage scale.” According to al-Jadeed television, Berri and […]

Hizbullah and al-Mustaqbal Movement stressed during their 41st bilateral dialogue session on Monday the need to reach an electoral law as soon as possible. “The conferees continued discussions over the preparations aimed at reaching an electoral law and underlined the need to approve it with […]

Lebanese Forces leader, Samir Geagea, maintained on Monday that his party had called the state to determine the utilities where public funds waste was taking place before heading to impose new taxes to finance the long-awaited salary scale. “Everybody recalls that two months ago when […]

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on […]

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea said Monday that “the worst kind of exploitation is when someone tries to exploit the suffering of the people,” noting that the LF has always been seeking to put an end to the waste of public funds before resorting to […]

President Michel Aoun met at Baabda palace on Monday with Prime Minister Saad Hariri, with whom he discussed the current general situation prevailing on the local scene. Hariri reportedly briefed the President over the outcome of his ongoing contacts with the competent ministers, in an […]

A meeting between several political parties was held late on Sunday at the Foreign Ministry in Beirut to tackle the thorny parliamentary electoral law in a bid to agree on a new format that meets approval of all political parties before the due date, LBCI […]