Its hard to understand why they made it easier for investors in 2007, I mean why did they take so long? People need jobs do they not? or are jobs not a priority.

Everybody in Bahrain knows the answers to your questions, can someone with more guts than me answer I send this to Japan.. I can tell you one thing, it has to do with someone passing away, a second taking power, a third who’s educated and open minded, and a fourth loosing his grip on power.

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But can someone please, please make sure our roads, communications, water, power (not necessarily in that order) keep pace with the building works or all of Bahrain will end up the same.

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It seems to me we cant do anything….

You’re throwing the baby out with the bath water aren’t you? Yours is simply an asinine comment, to say the very least.

We have had our problems for sure, but we are progressing much faster than other countries too, even with all the silly political problems we have been experiencing. Sure we are not Dubai, but we can certainly make strides in overtaking them in some sectors. They cannot be “the best” in everything, so we should (and we have) identify niches in which we are good and capitalise on those. Islamic banking is a case in point, even though that Dubai has built a “financial city” to try to compete with us.

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I remember going to Dubai in 1991 and seeing the Free Trade Zone with members of my corporate business team and we all agreed that Dubai would take off and be the central Hub for business and media communications in the Middle East. ( a 12 YEAR OLD COULD HAVE WORKED THAT ONE OUT)

However we did have a point of disagreement, as we felt that the competition other GCC States, would move swiftly to offer similar business solutions that would increase business and create work opportunties and add to the GDP. (BECAUSE THATS THERE JOB)

As the 90′s past and we went into to the present day we were surprised that Dubai was able to grow without any competition from Bahrain which did nothing noticable.

Its hard to understand why they made it easier for investors in 2007, I mean why did they take so long? People need jobs do they not? or are jobs not a priority.

We are hardly giving the competition anything to worry about, Dubai made investiong in there country simple 18 years ago and look at them now. And look at us……….Vietnam will over take us soon, there growth in the last 10 years is incredible. Why as there government is attractive to foreign investors and they just secured a huge Intel Contract to Manufacture Semi Conducters…..

Maybe we should get foriegn Labor to run our country as well as build our houses and roads. It seems to me we cant do anything….

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Without the waits and system problems, I suppose this whole process could have been completed in less than an hour. Still, it’s done and comparing it to what used to be the case, it’s quite a way ahead but there still is quite some room for improvement.

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I had a coffee at Costa and had a good chat with an old friend, chewed the fat and decided that I should do an article or two (maybe even a vlog as well) about the unrecognised soldiers of the Formula 1 circus, the marshals. Fayez suggested it and I agreed. I’m going to meet him this week to start the article.

So something good – if completely unrelated – has come out of this morning, but the very final paper that I need (the CR with the new activity) remains hostage to their system, so far.

Because I know someone at the BIC (Bahrain Investors’ Centre) I have been promised that they will call me when the system comes up again. I hope this morning.

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