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Heads up!
I am hearing that it's soon to be all change at the British-based schools in Bahrain. An ex-Bahrain senior teacher is returning from Hong Kong, I’m told, to join the management of one British school, whilst a senior member of staff at the other, larger, British school, is off to the Channel Islands to be a head teacher.
Awali closes
I am hearing on the jungle drums that Awali is to be closed in a sort of mini-curfew arrangement from 8pm until 6am for the under-15s, from September. It seems that it's the only way to cope with the increasing number of youngsters wandering the streets unsupervised after dark. If the stories are true, every youngster picked up between these hours will be taken home and parents will be asked to 'contribute' BD50 for their return.
Not so central market
It's moving, according to the latest reports. Central Market is to go out of town... a long way out, it seems. The land is simply too valuable for a market and there is so much money to be made from real estate that investors are putting money into revitalising the old central market and moving it at the same time - to Isa Town, I am hearing, not a new state-of-the-art complex near the Pearl Roundabout as earlier suggested.
Akon’s not so lonely
THERE are whispers on the circuit that AKON – the US-born singer, songwriter and record producer will be coming to Bahrain for an after-Ramadan concert.
Akon rose to fame in 2004 following the release of his single Locked Up and his second album, Konvicted earned him a Grammy Award nomination for the single Smack That featuring Eminem. Akon served a three-year jail sentence for grand theft auto – an experience that he said inspired Locked Up. In 2005, he released the single Lonely (which samples Bobby Vinton’s Mr Lonely). The song topped the charts in Australia, the UK and Germany.
