Ladies and gentlemen open your wallets, and expect BD500 to dive right into them, courtesy of non other than our praiseworthy MPS: Adel Al-Moawdah, Abdulhadi Marhoon, Abdulaziz Al-Moosa, Mohammed Al-Shaikh, Hamad Al-Mohannadi. Why? Simple. They had a joint humungous brain-fart that as the price of oil per barrel has reached $55, why not go against …
Earlier today, SBS executive producer Mike Carey said Mr Martinkus’ captors had investigated his background on the internet and saw he was harmless. “They Googled him, they checked him out on a popular search engine and got onto his own website or his publisher’s website and saw he was a writer and journalist,” Mr Carey …
It’s Haitham’s fault! He started a Bahraini blogger meeting group, and the first event is on Nov 4th. So if you are a blogger and want to chinwag, click here and you’ll get a chance to sign-up and participate at the meeting. I’ve created a block with a graphic on the left just to keep …
Abdulrahman al-Attiya, secretary general of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) that groups Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, noted at the time that family businesses control 98 percent of commercial activity in the Gulf region compared to rates of 65 to 80 percent elsewhere. Such businesses, which have a turnover of billions …
Got nothing to do? Hit Google with a bunch of words and see what comes out. Great fun! I’ve been doing that this evening and as you might have noticed, there are a bunch of new Gulf-based blogs added to the links on the left. If you know of any other blogs – especially in …