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IN response to your request and feedback from expats, here is one of the suggestions I would like to put forward.
In the UK the provision of care home facilities for the elderly has become a laughing stock.
 
I would suggest that many expats would wish to stay here as they get older, the warm weather, for one thing, is better for them.

It would seem sensible to offer superior care homes for expatriates in Bahrain. Some have the funds, they just need someone to organise it. Now there’s a challenge.

Yvonne Trueman,
By email.

THE single most important issue to be raised by the Expatriate Council is the failure of the legal system to protect the rights (legal, commercial and employment) of expatriate residents in Bahrain.

Other things that could be done include reducing some of the administrative issues for work/residence visas etc – LMRA, GDNPR processes and requirements, make an agreement with Saudi Arabia to allow expatriate residents in Bahrain to travel through and transit Saudi by road with visas on arrival, increase the number of areas where expatriates are allowed to buy properties and develop more tourist attractions such as beaches, parks and especially, green spaces.

Name and address supplied.

IN Sangeetha’s Youth Talk column last week headlined ‘Science without consideration’ she tackled a significant issue which, as a scientist myself, is one which I encounter with every experiment.

Recently a selection of research was published in a prominent American scientific journal, carried out by my team, on the effect of the hormone erythropoietin and its relationship with brain receptors and headaches.
The results were promising on mice but we will have to try the hormone on human patients as a follow up in order to broaden the scope of these new findings.

The ethical question here is: should we test this hormone on human subjects? And, if the answer is yes, who would accept being treated as a laboratory guinea pig?

Dr.Tarik Ahmed
Al Shaibani,
Bahrain.

Editor’s note: Sangeetha’s column will be back next week but she will be leaving shortly to study in the US at the University of California, Berkeley. If any young reader wishes to step into her shoes, please email editor@gulfweekly.com for more details.

YOUR article on photography highlighting the achievements of the young boy Jithin and his dad Premjith Narayanan was very interesting. I found it a well written piece of journalism.

It seems that in these days everyone is a photographer thanks to their mobile phone cameras. This article enabled one to appreciate that photography is not just taking photos.

Joy Abraham, Bahrain.