An MP wants to chop the hands off thieves, under proposed tough new changes to Bahrain’s penal code. Shaikh Ali Mattar wants Sharia law applied against people convicted of theft or burglary at private homes or any other premises. This would mean chopping off a hand and also sending the culprit to prison, MPs heard …
This is the prime minister of Bahrain, HE Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Al-Khalifa, on-board the Royal Plane en-route to Turkeya on a state visit which started yesterday. Two things come to mind seeing this picture: 1. He’s been spending a lot of time abroad over the last year… what gives? 2. Does he have a …
As if anyone actually uses the decrepit Post Office in Bahrain… Well we do if we are absolutely forced, otherwise I have no problem of paying any of the courier companies multiples of what I would have been charged using the “services” of the post office. Why? Because to send a letter (invoice or whatever) …
Was it worth it? Young people distanced from their families, studies and jobs for two whole years? The sentence is rather harsh. A few months would have been more appropriate and would have just as effectively demonstrated the government’s intention not to let riots like these go unpunished. And, had the sentence been shorter, I …
I do not normally reproduce email threads here, in fact I cannot remember that I have done so before, but I thought that I have to share this particular exchange with a member of the Bahrain Chamber of Commerce and Industry with you. It is an unfortunate situation which I had hoped that it would …