Imagine how my jaw dropped when I read the following in this morning’s Al-Waqt: “كانمنالأÙÂضل للموظ٠المتضرر اللجوء إلى مكتب الوزير قبل القضاء” Which translates to “It would have been better for the wronged employee to have sought the minister’s office before going to the courts” Who said that! None but the effervescent …
Year: 2007
I think almost everyone will agree with me that education is important, and the higher you get in the echelons of education, the higher standing you might expect in your job and career. This is quite naturally accepted worldwide, and that is why education is the highest priority for parents when preparing their children for …
I am indebted to the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights for being the very first organisation to offer me their unstinting support in the libel case brought against me by the minister of municipalities and agriculture and releasing a statement to that effect. My neglect to mention this fact is my personal stinking brain-fart so …
I am very grateful for the statement by the Bahrain Journalists Syndicate released to the press today in which they express unequivocal support to Bahraini journalists and writers who have been penalised for simply voicing their opinions which are supposed to be be guaranteed by our Constitution. I am also very grateful indeed to everyone …
More than two months after the elections, the Transparency along with the Bahrain Human Rights Societies came out with their Elections Report yesterday in which they affirmed – basically – that the elections were “free and fair”. No reservations. No pointing out the obvious. But even condoned the use of the General Voting Centers which …