Al-Rai_Al-Aam [Archives:2005/856/Press Review]
Headlines:
– Threatening Ba Jamal's government a mass anger because of the price hikes
– Discovering toxic chemicals . Because there are no national strategy 20,000 people vulnerable to becoming blind every year
– MP al-Barakani objects to improving the living conditions of the official media
– While journalists and lawyers intend to sue it, Ministry of Health admits to the spread of the Dengue fever in 6 governorates and 1500 people infected
– 50 juveniles in the states prisons
Features:
Financial violations paralyse the tourism council
About the ministry of Culture, Nabil Abduljabbar talks about the corruption taking place in the ministry of culture and how the minister spends 4 million and two hundred thousand in one week for travelling costs just for the tickets and the question is why is so much money spend on protocol and unnecessarily entertainment while there is so much to be done.
The Central Body for Monitoring and Accountability has revealed the amount of financial violations in the Body's report saying that there is no internal auditing and that the tourism promotion council does not even have officially appointed cadre and charter to define their job and responsibilities.
Opinions:
Would the government dare?
Mohammed Hassan Sha'ab in the back page of the newspaper writes that according to a number of inputs from political observers and experts that the government in our country is indeed heading for lifting the subsidies on the oil products and this is a great amount exceeding 160 billion riyals. And this consequently means that all of the oil products such as petrol, diesel and gas would double in price if not more.
The opinion describes the impact of this raise on the people in the rural areas who are more than 70% of the population and how the prices there are much more than in the cities and these are the lowest income-generating group. The opinion gives some statistics and concludes that with a question as to when this amount is saved, where will it go?
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