Globalization is a good thing

6 Aug, 2008  Annoyances, Gov

No matter who tries to fight it, globalization is an inevitably. You can’t escape. You’re only choice is to either declare you home as an independent state and become ambassador of Ingoramia, or go with the flow.

Qatar makes a huge mistake in the method by which they employ people and allow people to enter the country. There are no incentives to convince the money spending tourists to come and part with their well-earned cash.

It’s kind of funny if you think about it. Qatar’s economy is booming, there is massive growth and development, however I don’t see where all this is going if the government doesn’t make some serious changes.

We’ll all end up millionaires, sitting in our mansions, and have nothing to do with it! I strongly feel that we need to have Qatar divided into independently run Municipalities (there is a very weak version of that going on at the moment) so that various areas can ‘compete’ with each other to improve their region.

Al Khor “mayor” calls up Doha mayor, *RING*, “Dude, have you seen our corniche? It’s freaking awesome!” And so the competition begins!

What about the employment of certain nationalities? I simply do not understand WHY we have to do that. Why not just get the person suitable for the job and also incentives different nationals so that we can have an internationally integrated community?

30% of Qatar comprises of Indians. Doesn’t the government understand that you can’t bring in a nationality which is equal to the population of nationals and expect to rule them with an iron fist.
Yes they are here to work, but they are also here to LIVE.

Fine Mr. Government, you don’t like it? How about you mix it up a bit. Bring in some Chinese, Bring in more Indonesians, Bring in some Cubans! Bring in anyone!

Then give them an opportunity to set up shop! Let them start a community so that we can experience various cultures. Well… I say that now, however it’s still amazingly hard even for us Qataris to start a business.

Qatar’s progressing, but I feel that the solution to make it go on the right path is if we have some young people assisting the Emir. The old generation simply isn’t seeing the future, they’re just reminiscing about the past.

Freedom of Expression

    Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which the Qatari Government is a signatory of states: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any medias and regardless of any frontiers.

    The Emiri Decision Number 86 of the year 2007 on the establishment of the Doha Free Information Centre marked yet another step towards establishing a State of rights and freedom of speech. The decision stipulated that the Centre be a non-profit organization, headquartered in Doha City, and have the authority to establish other affiliated centres inside and outside Qatar. It is worth mentioning that His Highness the Emir issued a decision in 1998 annulling the ministry of information, giving birth to a new era of freedom of speech where censorship was removed from local media.