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Expats angry at local-only Bahrain subsidies
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Posted on Monday, 21 January 2008
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Posted by Babuji at 18:31 UAE time
Yes the best way give better life to the citizens of a country is to improve them internally. Thus as a country, Bahrain should draw plan to increase the education and academic status of their citizens. This will not only get them jobs allocated to be filled only by arabs inside and outside Bahrain, but also in the nearby GCC countiries as many Arab jobs are not filled due to lack of right candidates.
Country should plan a longterm improvement program and recruit locals as trainees under in all departments just to get a exposure and not to get any result. Thus joblessness can be solved. Working on Expats and their spending will directly affect the demographic population and nothing else.
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Like Serfs in the Dark Ages...
Posted by Louie Tedesco at 08:04 UAE time
Some may view this subject as a joke but it is a reality. Real decisions, made by real people, in real positions of power, whether such policies are implemented or not is irrelevant. The policy was given thought, it was developed, discussed internally and then presented to the public. Publicizing such political policies and programs only serves to show the world at large the view held by the local minority population of the foreign labour population which has built their nation - that these are second class citizens who are only tolerated as a matter of convenience whereby their meagre earnings are to be harvested like farm-kept cattle.
Such policies are clearly a violation of human rights and blatant discrimination. In countries who have signed UN charters on human rights, authors of such policies would be stripped of their political powers if such discriminatory plans were accidentally revealed. Here, the policy is openly presented as a benefit to citizens without due regard of the negative reactions and opinions of the foreign press and the governments of the affected expats. We should be giving thought to those other plans and policies which are so terribly preposterous that they do not even make it beyond the inner sanctum of politics to reach the ear of the public. When discriminatory policies such as this become a forum for open discussion in the 21st century, I shudder to think at what the "secret policies" contain that are regularly rejected.
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my view on the article for price hike for expats in bahrain
Posted by Sameera Khan at 07:26 UAE time
One cannot deny and one cannot forget their past. If the developed middle-east countries are witnessing what they are seeing today, a large contribution of hard-work, dedication, sweat and heart was put in equally by the expats. Leaders have vision, but the workers, who consist mainly of expats, drive that vision to a reality. Least you can show gratitude is by treating them equally and giving them a home away from their home
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Posted on Sunday, 20 January 2008
Subsidies for Nationals in Bahrain
Posted by Wilhelm Niederhauser at 20:12 UAE time
I would like to comment that in the UAE expats pay an electricity tariff of 20 fils per kWh against 7.5 fils for the nationals. Has ever anyone called it racist ? Although such practice would be unthinkable in Europe, it is the right of a country to treat their citizens more favourably.
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Basic commodity racial profiling
Posted by Dr.Laji M at 19:19 UAE time
The Bahrainis seems to be in the news for all the wrong reasons of late. It appears that the lawmakers can't find real and practical solutions for their economic woes, and are shifting the focus to a wrongly perceived expat cause for all their problems. Look at Dubai and learn.
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Just being different
Posted by Francis at 18:29 UAE time
Well, at least one of the GCC country has to act differently compared to the rest.
I hope it can find better ways to help its citizens and also plan schemes to motivate them.
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Bahraini - Dual Pricing Plan
Posted by Ashraf at 15:56 UAE time
Its a joke. Cannot be implemented. No one in their right mind would ever think of such an impractical policy. Perhaps the Bahraini Lawmakers need lessons from the UAE government. The best way to make/grow wealth is free enterprise and encouragement.
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Bahraini subsidies for nationals labeled racists
Posted by Lee at 15:17 UAE time
I really do not understand what the Bahraini government is trying to achieve with some of the recent stories in the media. Rising costs of ex-pat visa expenses? a 6-year residency cap for unskilled workers? Now subsidies for nationals but nothing for ex-pats? The government should understand and respect the fact that ex-pats keep Bahrain functioning. Many Bahraini's are unemployed because they will not accept certain jobs. How many Bahraini's do you see working in restaurants? Not many...why? Because they do not want those jobs. The government should stop penalizing ex-pats and start focusing on motivating, educating and training Bahraini nationals to get them into the work force, even if the jobs are not in the government or in banks.
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