I don’t believe that the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry is in a good state. It hasn’t been looking after the business community for quite a while and to most businesses in Bahrain, it’s dead but somebody forgot to officially bury it. To wit, what we hear from the BCCI is the constant chest …
A couple of days ago I went on about the endemic corruption beleaguering our government‘s organs. Today, with the Audit Bureau Report for 2009 being made public and being subjected to initial analysis by the press, I was wrong in choosing that title. I should have called it the Complete and Utter Collapse of the …
Just saw this on today’s Al-Wasat:‬ ‪ العاهل يستقبل عائلة بنرجب استقبل عاهل البلاد جلالة الملك ØÂمد بنعيسى آل خليÙÂØ© بقصر الصاÙÂرية أمس عائلة بنرجب، وذلك للسلام على جلالته، وقد رØÂب عاهل البلاد بالجميع وتبادل معهم الأØÂاديث الودية. وأكد خلال اللقاء أنمملكة البØÂرينØÂققت الكثير منالإنجازات ÙÂيمختل٠الميادين، وذلك …
In a first for Bahrain, a sitting minister is arrested on charges of money laundering…
Quote: Dubai, which until last week loomed tall – literally – as an enterprising, cosmopolitan, glitzy and happy antithesis to the Middle East’s economic stagnation, has now emerged as a sad monument to all that is ill about the pan-Arab economy, which includes more than a quarter-billion people but is smaller than Spain’s.