This has become an issue that I hope that the Ministry of Traffic will deal with. Where are the beautiful Traffic Police cars that the government recently invested in. You used to see the traffic police everywhere and they used to enforce the law. Nowadays, they’re more concerned with sitting in their cars and chatting.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve met police and some of my friends work in the police and I’m proud of them, but I think that it’s time to stir things up. Look at the Lekhwia. They’re supposed to be Qatar’s security force. Yet I notice that they’re doing the Traffic police’s job!

Look at this accident that happened at La Cigale the other day. An FJ crashed straight into the center of a restaurant (luckily it was empty at the time).

Who’s to blame? I dont want to point fingers but, the roads and streets don’t encourage people to slow down, people are getting licences too easily, there aren’t enough deterants, and the list goes on.

We need more of Qatar’s Traffic police roaming the streets and enforcing the law. Talking on the phone? Fine! Not signaling? Fine! Not leaving enough space between yuo and a car? Fine! Trying to jump a cue? Fine!

All of these basics need to be embedded into everyone.

I say we follow Dubai’s method and put the whole country on a year probation. People need to learn how to stay in their lanes, indicate properly, not to stick out half way on a round about etc…

Common dear Qatar, help the country before its too late.

Who’s with me?

This is the type of news that usually get’s the backpage of British press. To be honest, I don’t even know if it’s making the news. Give me a second to go check Sky news *runs off for a moment*

Alright I’m back. It took a bit of digging on the website, the news is there but you’ll have to search for it.  To be honest, I’m reading it and it looks very similar to The Peninsula’s article. In fact, I think The Peninsula may have borrowed a bit from it… tsk tsk.

This poor boy was ganged up on, beaten up, and Read the rest of this entry »

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! Read the rest of this entry »

We want Tourism… but we don’t want Tourists. That’s Qatar’s national moto it seems. I simply don’t understand what’s going on in the minds of some people. Let’s look at Chinese nationals. Are you a female? Between the age of 20 and 29? You’re a prostitute! No! Don’t even bother trying to argue with me!

That’s the way the government sees it some would say. It just freaking annoys me the way that people think of solutions in this country! Let’s look at this from the beginning. At one point in time, there were a lot of Chinese prositutes. So they came up with the solution highlighted above.

Is it astroke of genious? I doubt it. Some guy just didn’t want to think things through. The amount of frustrated men in Qatar is unbelievable and it’s because they don’t allow women in. I need to elaborate. If you’re from Europe or the US, you can get into Qatar by just arriving at the airport and paying a visa charge there and then, but if you’re from anywhere else it’s hard… in most cases it’s because the visa official just didn’t feel like allowing someone in and it’s THAT sort of bias which annoys me. If everything if fine, it’s not up to them to place personal feelings into whether they ‘think’ someone looks good enough to allow in.

There are a few points that I want to highlight. Read the rest of this entry »