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Dear Stan, I would like to comment on Bahrain's advertised 'business friendly' status. I have this stamped in my passport now, which is just fantastic.

I am a fairly recent arrival to Bahrain, having only been doing 'business' here over the last eight months.

First of all, a little about what I do: through my contacts in international organised-crime, I have access to factories in the Far-East that probably use smuggled children, held in slavery, to manufacture counterfeit watches. I buy these watches and then have them imported to Bahrain and then put them on sale in my shop in a glitzy Bahraini mall. 'Rolexes', 'Omegas', 'Cartiers' - all at 'good' prices.

Previous to coming to Bahrain, I had to smuggle in these goods illegally into my country to avoid customs and was reduced to selling my wares on street corners out of a suitcase in the back of a car - with one eye always looking out for the police.

I, therefore, wish to extend my heartfelt thanks to the individuals responsible for creating a climate where degenerate, inferior individuals - who can't do respectable business in their own countries - can come to Bahrain, a haven, where a blind eye appears to be turned to such ventures.

Here, adventurous 'entrepreneurs', such as me, can do 'business' openly - free from the constraints of international laws and respectable morality.

Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Oil Barrels W.L.L.

Dear Stan,

This is in response to the article 'RJ Khoj a no-show' in last week's GulfWeekly.

I really sympathise with Aarti Sharma, and can understand how she might be feeling ... cheated is the right word. So, Aarti, best of luck and I suggest you would be better off trying to fulfil your ambitions at a radio station maybe in India or Dubai.

Rajesh Kalan, by email.