We woke up this morning to headlines that municipal and parliamentary elections will be held on time, sometime before December 13th, 2006, as the present parliament first sat on December 14th, 2002. Four years. That’s the constitution and that’s the law. When though is anyone’s guess, as it is constitutionally at the king’s pleasure. One …
Let’s see… the UN says that terrorism is defined as: criminal acts intended or calculated to provoke a state of terror in the general public, a group of persons or particular persons for political purposes are in any circumstance unjustifiable, whatever the considerations of a political, philosophical, ideological, racial, ethnic, religious or other nature that …
When the only metric that you consider when evaluating a job is the cash you can stash rather than any other factor which should be considered, especially if that job is in the service of your country, then you are not worthy of that job, regardless of its pay and benefits. Take for instance our …
Time and again we are privileged to hear that our king, his majesty Shaikh Hamad bin Esa Al-Khalifa, is fully committed to see his vision realised in the reforms he initiated since he gained the throne. Time and again he unequivocally came out and said that he is for the freedoms of expression and he …
No no, it’s not a joke, it’s real, and what’s even MORE real is that the Bahraini who is heading the GA is a woman! The General Assembly elected a champion of women’s rights in Islamic courts as its next president on Thursday, making Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain the third female to lead …