The Municipal Council’s decisions of October 14, 2008:

1-Approve on some scholar offers for the workers’ building.

2-Approve on modifying Municipal Council’s decree number 59 of March 24, 2006, concerning the Cornish planning.

3-Approve on twinning between El-Mina’s Municipality and Kuşadasi’s in Turkey.

4-Approve on twinning between El-Mina’s Municipality and Big Kerk’s in Jordan.

The Municipal Council’s decisions of October 31, 2008:

1-Approve on accepting Kuşadasi’s invitation for signing the twinning’s consent.

Municipal Council’s News

Dr. Samer Annous had exposed to the Municipal Council, during its last meeting, the different steps achieved by Archimedes’s project that is common between El-Mina’s Municipality and many European municipalities. He discussed also the details of internet topics, tourists’ income and expected services from the project’s results. All the project details are available on the webpage mentioned next to this page.

Municipal Council

Dr. Annous

Beginning of works for the municipal palace construction

Tuesday morning, October 7, 2008, works for Municipal Palace construction began in El-Mina. It’s known that the new owner of the real estate is the Lebanese republic, the Ministry of Interior and Municipal Affairs, El-Mina Municipality. In addition, the Association of Determination and Happiness was delegated by the president Najib Mikati to finance the project of construction.

N.M. Construction Company is directing the project under the supervision of the architectural office, Archico, for the architect Spirou Rouhana. The civil engineer is Amine Marhaba, and the electrical engineer is Abdelmonhem Alameddine. All of these three persons are freely working and offering their experience. The contractor is the Company of Arab World for the commitments, and the direction is from SOTEC. It’s expected that all works will be achieved within a period of six months.

President Najib Mikati inaugurated the construction of El-Mina’s Municipal Castle

President Najib Mikati celebrated for the inauguration of the construction of El-Mina’s Municipal Castle, as being a donation from him for El-Mina citizens. This ceremony was assisted by the Municipality’s Mayor and members, Muslim and Christian religious men, presidents of free professions’ syndicates and El-Mina citizens.
The Municipality’s Mayor, Abdul Kader Alameddine, pronounced a speech in which he thanked Taha and Najib Mikati, and the Association of Determination and Happiness for their donation, hoping that the works will end in six months. Also, he thanked the Syndicate of Engineers, and the executive engineer Espiridon Rouhana.

In addition, President Najib Mikati focused on El-Mina city which present a sample of common life, dialog and open-mindedness, hoping that El-Mina Municipal Castle will be an essential element in the way of development and construction that Tripoli and El-Mina will witness after the reconciliation for a secure and safe country.

El-Mina Municipality Honors Fr. Antoine Daou

Mufti of Tripoli: He loved his religion, thus he loved his brothers

The Mayor and the members of El-Mina Municipality honored Fr. Antoine Daou, in the occasion of moving his ecclesiastic service from El-Mina to the parish of Shamlan in Aley. The ceremony was attended by Sheikh Malek Al-Shaar - Mufti of Tripoli and the North, Nassif Qalush - mayor of the North and Beirut, Abdul Kader Alameddine - El-Mina Municipality's Mayor, Nasser Al-Saleh - former president of the Sunnite Legal Tribunals, Bishop Elias Qorban represented by Archimandrite Youhanna Batash, Bishop Georges Abu Jawdeh, Asaad Harmoush - former depute, Nassim Khoriaty - President of the Syndicate of Doctors, Fadi Karam, President of the Syndicate of dentists, Rashid Derbas - President of the Syndicate of Lawyers, Abdul Menhem Alameddine, former President of the Syndicate of Engineers, local associations' presidents, schools principals, media man and friends of the honored father.

The ceremony started by a welcoming word pronounced by Dr. Jean Touma, a member in the municipality, followed by a word to the president Alameddine: "the Fr. Daou is leaving us to serve in another Lebanese region, and I am completely sure that he will carry the noun of El-Mina and the North in all regions in Lebanon that gathers all its citizens with equity, justice and balance". Then Fr. Antoine Daou insisted on the ra2es face of Tripoli in the dialog and the Other's acceptance, mentioning the role of the Mufti of Tripoli Malek Al-Shaar for his approach of the country's general status, and thanking the El-Mina Municipality for this honoring event. At the end, the Mufti of Tripoli Malek Al-Chaar mentioned the loyal role of Fr. Daou towards El-Mina and the North, who "was the messenger of love and Other's acceptance in a conscious approach for the faith of others and the respect of their doctrines, their traditions and their habits. The Fr. Daou loved his religion, thus he loved his brothers from all beliefs and communities, representing thus the perseverance of the good sincere believers".

After that, the Mufti Malek Al-Shaar and the president Alameddine offered the appreciation armor to the Fr. Antoine Daou in the noun of El-Mina citizens.

The Municipal Council and the Civil Community scream:

El-Mina city is afflicted

As a disapprobation for slowly and badly executing the works of the water installation’s project in El-Mina city, the Mayor and the Members of the Municipal Council, religious people, El-Mina Mayors, local association’s presidents and environment concerned people had all gathered in front of El-Mina Municipality, where the El-Mina Municipality’s mayor, Mr. Abdul Kader Alameddine, declared, in their name, a speech of which:

“I carry the scream of El-Mina’s Municipal Council and the Civil Community in the city of waves and horizon, the city actually dominated by excavations, dust, moving red sand and scattered stones,

I carry the scream of the Municipal Council whose members’ voices got hoarse in asking the concerned people in the society for establishing the water installations, cooperating with each other and getting the harm away from the citizens,

Also, I carry the scream of El-Mina’s citizens, associations and committees, and of the Civil Community which got tired from this terrible situation in El-Mina’s streets,

I declare, in your name, that El-Mina City is afflicted in its streets, its tourism and its commercial and economic situation.”

In addition, the Sheikh Nasser Al-Saleh and the Fr. Samira Hajjar insisted, in this solidarity gathering disapproving the artistic violations in El-Mina’s streets and places, on the issue that the concerned people must work to get the harm away from the citizens and quickly achieve this project hindering the citizens’ circulation and harming people and the tourism season, especially that Ramadan Month is nearly to arrive.

EL-Mina Municipality:

Honor of Mrs. Ghaza Ghazi for her Retirement

In the occasion of her retirement, the El-Mina Municipal Council honored Mrs. Ghada Ghazi, president of the department of administrative affairs. The ceremony was held in Beit Al-Fan (Art House) in the presence of the President of the EL-Mina's Municipality, Mr. Abdul Kader Alameddine, and the member of the Municipal Council, in addition to her colleagues, employees of the Municipality, and some of her family's members.

In this occasion, the Mayor of the Municipality pronounced a speech of which: "Mrs. Ghada Ghazi will always be an important memory in the memory of El-Mina. She walked along with El-Mina's path, in its happy and sad occasions, in the daily requests of its citizens. She worked always for the service of everyone, without any distinction or discrimination. Mrs. Ghada is actually joining the elite who served totally the society; therefore, we're honoring her in the name of all El-Mina's citizens expressing so the grateful feelings and appreciation towards her, for the essential role she played all along her work. All the words about employee's sacrifices are always unable to express his veritable work. The successful employee is the one who has a good reputation among the people. Mrs. Ghada was always considered an employee always aspirating for people's comfort and loyally working in their service and the service of their interests.

Alameddine and Mrs. Ghada Ghazi

The honored replied by a speech thanking the Mayor and the members of the Municipal Council for their "initiative going from the love and the appreciation that the employees express towards her". Moreover, she mentioned her work in the Municipal Department with the Mayor Abdul Kader Alameddine since 1973, insisting on the cooperation established between the employees in the service of El-Mina and its citizens.

Then, Alameddine gave the honored an appreciation armor, before going to the cocktail consecrated for this occasion.

Archimedes' project

In the frame of the Archimedes' project financed by the European Group, a delegation of the Genes's Municipality, in Italy, including Roberto Marini, director of the economic progress, accompanied by the director of the responsible on the works in the ancient city of Genes, has visited the El-Mina's city to see its tourist, cultural and economic status. The delegation has held many meetings with the Mayor of the El-Mina's Municipality, Mr. Abdul Kader Alameddine, in the presence of the President of the Tourist Committee, Captain Abdullah Jabr. The Municipality's Mayor has insisted on the importance and the European and Italian support for the El-Mina's city and its vital projects. Moreover, the delegation has also visited Khan Al-Tamasili and the ancient city, in addition to the artisan centers, the Center of the Tourist's Information and Beit Al-Fan.

The delegation

 
Vice-President of the 16th district in Paris in  Mina

The President of the El-Mina Municipality Abdul Kader Alameddine welcomed the Vice-President of the 16th district in Paris, Mme I'jab Khoury who showed her admiration towards the El-Mina city, its monuments and its civilization, the amiability of the citizens and the activity of the Municipal Council. In the meeting, they discussed local municipal affairs and the way of exchanging expertise between both cities. Moreover, Mme Khoury, whose origins are from Tripoli, showed a big interest towards the affairs of both Tripoli and El-Mina cities, explaining so her desire of establishing a cooperation between the El-Mina Municipality and the French municipalities.
The El-Mina Municipality's Mayor, Mr. Abdul Kader Alameddine expressed his strong interest in the discussed topics and promised to continue the execution of the points of the cooperation considered necessary to the profit of both cities.

In addition, the Municipality's Mayor received a group delegated from the Association of Embellishing Lebanon, including Ms. Yolla Antoun and Mr. Gihad Younes. The group members expressed their desire to put a strategy to embellish the El-Mina's piazzas and gardens following a scientific mechanism and according to artistic and architectural specific studies. Alameddine thanked the members of the Association for taking care of the El-Mina city, transmitting to them the salutations of the El-Mina citizens and thanking them for this special environmental initiative.

 
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