Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Every week in Bahrain we see burning tyres, rubbish and oil blocking the roads, and read of Molotov cocktails and rocks being thrown at cars, all the work of Bahraini youth, and yet Mai Al Khatib chooses to devote two pages to the wall writing actions of so-called ‘expat brats’ (and isn’t that phrase rather abusive for an unbiased journalist?).
Yes, graffiti can be unpleasant, but it does not endanger lives, and all the compound owners have to do is invest in a pot of paint and spend five minutes covering up anything they don’t like.
The mess at the bottom of Saar Avenue is not caused by Western teenagers.
If Bahrainis do not love and respect their surroundings, then how do you expect visitors to do the same?
Pantomime is coming back to Bahrain, oh yes it is! For the past couple of years the Dilmun Club’s annual ‘he’s behind you’ razzmatazz has been culled mainly because of fears of teargas floating over the audience by the pool but the brave boys and girls at the British Club have plans to stage their own this December.
