by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Nov 26, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
The Oakland Streets blog, run by a local citizen, has come across a report on why the streets of the city look like a war zone or as he/she put it: Why My Street Looks Like Beirut I recently stumbled across an “OaklandStreets Fact Sheet” put out by the...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 14, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Ontario, Canada According to residents of Donwoods Drive in Toronto, the roads that ply through their streets belong in Beirut rather than Canada: Donwoods Drive is a doozy. A gateway residential street to Hoggs Hollow, the steep swath of pavement can rattle teeth and...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Apr 22, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Linday Johns of the Daily Mail hits out at the idea of “hiring hoodies” as recommended by the UK’s Employment Minister. In his ran the pull out a looks like Beirut cliche: Employment Minister Chris Grayling’s plea yesterday in a speech to the Policy...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Mar 7, 2012 | Looks Like Beirut
Kingston, Jamaica Inspector Victor George Henry, a Jamaican cop, has had his share of brushes with death – 8 to be exact. Inspector Henry describes his most defining moment to Stabroek News. Flashback to April 2000: “I was the operations manager at CCN at...
by Lebanon News Under Rug Swept | Jun 12, 2011 | Looks Like Beirut
That’s according to Cllr Jeff Dutton: People living in a housing area in Huntingdon have lost a bid to stop new houses being built in front of their homes even after they described the area as “the back streets of Beirut”. […] Cllr Jeff Dutton was also...