Not unlike the majority of business people in Bahrain, we have been suffering from the Bahrainisation policy adopted and enforced by the government which regulates the labour market and shoves unqualified, unwanted, unproductive and completely useless Bahraini job seekers down our throats and penalises us if we dare fire them. Thus disregarding the basic premise …

Al-Asala are at it again [arabic – al-wasat], not content with their proposal to be discussed in the forthcoming 3rd session of parliament to enact Islamic Shari’a laws, their next step is banning alcohol without for an instant taking into consideration and immense economic damage this move might incur, especially that there are various reports …

I would like to highlight a comment posted by Bahraini Terp which is well worth highlighting. Thank you Bahraini Terp for this very eloquent response and clarifications on where you (and I as well as most of us regulars here) think Arabs SHOULD stand today: I’d like to slap some myths upside the head here, …

Thank yous go to the dimwits who spammed our comments, over a hundred spam-comments were deleted between last night and this morning. The IPs the stupid dicks used were bogus and untraceable. More than that they also screwed up the ratings on every article they entered a comment. I just hope that they are happy. …

I hope the voters are really happy and patting themselves on the back for getting the Islamists to our parliament, according to today’s Al-Wasat, The Salafi Bloc tabled a motion for the application of Shari’a Law in Bahrain, and if that’s not enough, the “Muslim Bloc” headed by Abdulaziz Al-Mousa has strenghthened that position by …