In a (failed) attempt by the government to dissuade the four boycotting political societies from gathering signatures for a petition to change the constitution, the government threatened to close those societies using Article 29 of the constitution. The irony is the guy holding this stick is non other than the current Minister of Labour and …
Ok, not only do we have a somewhat functioning parliament in Bahrain, good social institutions (both for and against the government) but it was announced today that Dr. Nada Abbas Haffadh has been appointed to the post of Minister of Health. She is the first Arab woman to take on that mantle, and certainly the …
After all the Police screw-ups of the last few days, they find the “Missing GMC”. They’ve been looking for the “Missing GMC”, supposedly full of explosives, since February. There was a 7m Riyal ($2m) reward for reporting it. But nobody spotted it. Then it suddenly turns up in Riyadh, the day after the latest Police …
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