SAWT BEIRUT INTERNATIONAL

| 30 April 2024, Tuesday |

Approval of electricity advance or raising tariff?

Minister of Energy and Water Walid Fayyad, is presenting two options for the electricity file, that remains at the fore, either to approve the electricity advance or raise the tariff in order to be able to increase the feeding hours.
To shed more light on this topic, the economist Nassib Ghobril joined us

Head of the Tourist Syndicates Federation in Lebanon, Pierre Ashkar, complained in a statement, about the almost continuous power outage that inflicts high operating costs for tourist establishments, as a result of the use of private generators in light of diesel high prices
Ashqar warned that tourism is in a very big predicament, as a result of the political reality, relying on the Kuwaiti initiative and the possibility of its positive impact on the political situation, and thus the tourism situation, which is one of the most important components of the Lebanese economy. He warned that as long as the political situation is unstable, the economic, financial, tourism, social and life conditionsm will remain unstable, but rather deteriorating.

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