Intrigued: A blueprint on national strategy towards promoting tourism in Bahrain yesterday took centre stage as Crown Prince and Economic Development Board (EDB) President Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa received at Riffa Palace a team commissioned to study ways to develop the sector. The taskforce, led by Works and Housing Minister Fahmi Al Jowder, …
How incompetent is the Bahrain News Agency? Well, here’s your answer, if you need convincing that is: PM leaves for UK date: 08 04, 2006 Manama, April. 8 (BNA) Prime Minister Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa left here today on several days visit to the United Kingdom to attend the graduation of his grandson …
The US State Department released its Human Rights Report on Bahrain for 2005, and it’s not good at all. If anything, it’s probably more damning than the ones released in the 90s, considering we have democracy now and even a parliament. Thanks SBG for the heads-up.
Meet the teacher of ethics and proper conversational respect: Mr. Abdulaziz Al-Fadhel, Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Mr. Al-Fadhel is not happy with those children in parliament whom he thinks are “humiliating” the government and its ministers because they don’t adopt the appropriate tone when speaking to or about them, and they don’t do …
Prepare yourself for another 100,000+ person march this weekend (yes, the F1 weekend!) to blackmail the parliament to rescind the Family Law the government sent it yesterday. Our e-steamed clerics are adamant that the proposed Family Law which concerns the Ja’afari sect (Shi’a) NOT be discussed and passed into law by parliament. What are their …