Gardener’s loyalty rewarded DUBAI: Dubai’s ruler has awarded a 63-year-old Pakistani gardener 50,000 dirhams ($13,600 or BD5,125) for always showing up to work on time during the 28 years he spent working there. The bonus Mohammad Nazier received was the equivalent of 49 months’ pay from his job with the state’s municipal authority. GDN :: …
Year: 2007
Could it be that Al-Wefaq has taken everyone for a ride with this Attiyatallah parliamentary probe? They tabled the probe motion very late in the first session and even by optimistic timeframe, they would have only had one day, May 30th to question the minister They knew that they would be opposed heavily and must …
Caper flower (Capparis spinosa L.), originally uploaded by malyousif. The first time this plant flowers with me. I bought this herb plant, the Caper (Capparis spinosa) from the recent Bahrain Garden Show and put it in a pot by the front door on a pedestal as it has a habit of "flowing" and it looks …
Caper flower (Capparis spinosa L.), originally uploaded by malyousif. The first time this plant flowers with me. I bought this herb plant, the Caper (Capparis spinosa) from the recent Bahrain Garden Show and put it in a pot by the front door on a pedestal as it has a habit of "flowing" and it looks …
The Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich has released an in-depth report about blogs and forums in Bahrain and how they affected the political discourse in this country: Bahrain in transition, from blog to street The large and rapidly diversifying Bahraini blogosphere is opening up fields of discussion and debate that could never have …