It is with utter sadness that I learnt that journalist Mr. Saleh Al-Amm was handed a 3 month prison sentence or payment of a fine as the court found him guilty of libel in a case brought against him by Ms. Fatima Buali, the ex-manageress of the Almanar Home for the Elderly. This prison sentence …
Year: 2007
Post updated at 21:25 on 13 Feb, ’07 with English translation by me of the Bahrain Journalists Association’s press release. The Bahrain Journalists Association has just released a strongly worded press release in which it condemned the minister of municipalities and agriculture’s reneging on an agreement in which I have fully fulfilled. My thanks go …
Unfortunately the mediation between the minister of municipalities and agriculture and myself to resolve the dispute and perceived libel has not been successful. I have demonstrated my good will over the last few days by amending the original article, but that it seems is not enough for the right honourable gentleman. The minister wants to …
Man I am pissed. I dropped my new WD Passport 160GB drive while I was getting out of the car this morning and now the bugger is buggered. I’ve got 120GB of data on it, mostly my original photographs going back years! It contains my whole library which I have deleted from my disks because …
I’m still a bit confused from reading various reports yesterday of the government subsidising basic necessities to the tune of BD500 million (US$1.326 billion) a year. Of that staggering figure, we know that BD12 million are spent on subsidising meat, poultry and flour. Okay, that is good in that it keeps prices of necessities low, …