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.
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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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