Thursday, August 22, 2024

General

Visit by Energy and Water Minister Walid Fayad to Koura district

9:00 am Dahr El Ain: Quick inspection of the main sewer line in Koura at the Environmental Village point (Dr. Badr Hassoun). This area suffers annual damage due to winter floods.

10:00 am Batroumine: Meeting in Batroumine (Minister Fayad’s hometown) with Koura Municipal Union President Rabi Ayoub, Mayor Khalil Najar, and local figures.

11:15 am Bshamzien: Field visit to assess the rehabilitation works at the Bshamzien wells.

-12:00 pm Amioun: Meeting with the Koura Municipal Union, including the Union President, municipalities.

1:30 pm Dar Baashtaar: Field visit to the solar energy system site for the Dar Baashtaar well, attended by Mayor Issac Aboud, local figures, the donor, and North Lebanon Water Authority.

9:30 am The Union of Arab Banks, in collaboration with the Special Investigation Commission, opens the annual Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Forum – “Impacts of Cash Economics on the Ban
king System,” at the Phoenicia Hotel. The event is sponsored and attended by the Acting Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon and Head of the Special Investigation Commission, Dr. Wassim Mansouri.

10:00 am Press conference on the status of beneficiaries from the National Program for Supporting the Poorest Families and updates related to the Aman Program, at the Ministry of Social Affairs, 7th floor.

10:00 am “Lebanon Youth Development Forum” titled “Youth and the Future of the Blue Economy,” organized by the Hariri Foundation, under the patronage of Environment Minister Nasser Yassin, at the Movenpick Hotel, Beirut, running until 12:30 pm.

11:30 am Press conference by the “One Lebanon People” Association at the Syndicate of Press Editors in the L’Amartine Center, on “Western-Zionist Aggression Led by the American Administration and Its Allies Against Palestine and Measures to Stop This Aggression and Establish a Just Global System.”

Source: National news agency – Lebanon