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Bee Series

The bee as an example

There is no black or white bee… The bee is neither rich nor poor… We will not build a healthy society if we don’t start with children through civic education.
This is how we become proud of our country and our country proud of us.

Current Statistics

LBP 45.2 million is the compensation paid by the Higher Relief Committee to the Mayor of Beirut Abdel Mone’am al-Aris as compensation for a burglary of his house located in the town of Khartoum in Saida by the end of January 2007.

LBP 75.4 billion is the estimated compensation paid in explosions and assassinations for Lebanon since the assassination attempt against Minister Marwan Hamadeh and until the end of September 2007. An amount of LBP 27.1 billion was paid and included LBP 2.6 billion in the assassination of Deputy Antoine Ghanem; LBP 428 million in the assassination of Deputy Walid Eido; and LBP 1.3 billion in the assassination of Deputy Gebran Tueni.

LBP 4.5 billion is the Treasury advance payment to the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority to cover its expenditures, in particular mobile lines expenses.

LBP 452 million was paid by the Lebanese government to BNB Paribas through the Higher Privatization Committee for setting privatization plans.

LBP 2,523 is the estimated allowances, salaries and wages of civil servants for the year 2008, including LBP 116.8 billion as school tuitions.

Last Updated Mar-Apr 2008