Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
You don’t know me; I know you, I know what’s being said about you.
I’m the ‘whisperer’. I am socially mobile: Arab, Brit, Indian, Pakistani, American and the rest, they all invite me and share their world with me. Not much gets past me but if you think it may have done, email me on . . .
Making a splash
So, how do teachers behave at their end-of-year party? Well, a little like children, it would appear.
The Whisperer has heard from an impeccable source that at the end of annual St. Christopher’s School bash at the British Club some members of staff did not retire for a cup of cocoa and bed but decided to dive fully clothed into the swimming pool.
Had they fully stripped off, however, they could have made the front page splash in this newspaper.
Tadpole
Following the recent revelation regarding the fate of the so-called 'Bird Island', and how it is to be removed by dredging for environmental reasons, I can confirm that the small sand-bar known to many as ‘Tadpole’, is to be treated in a similar fashion.
There were suggestions, at the same meeting, it seems, that if the government is going to remove islands because they are environmentally unsound, let’s hope some Smart Alec doesn’t suggest placing Bahrain itself on the list. I am saying nothing!
Traffic problems
Bahrain has slid further down the list of nations with a bad reputation for trafficking in people. Rumours are reaching me that the reputation of Bahrain in this regard is one of the worst in the world. What to do? Maybe someone should start looking at the link between reputation and inward investment...
Curfew
It seems that the success of the recent curfew in Awali has been such that it is to be extended to parts of Saar. The mobs of marauding youngsters are to be discouraged, it seems. Watch out in Saar, is all I can say.
