Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
SCHOOLBOY Shane McCarthy was so moved by TV documentaries focusing on the victims of the Syrian conflict that he was determined this festive season to lend a helping hand.
GulfWeekly reader Olivia Braganza bagged a pair of tickets to the New Year’s Eve Ballroom Party at the Sofitel Bahrain Zallaq Thalassa Sea and Spa when her name was picked up by the editor as the winner of a contest run by the newspaper in association with the five-star property.
Tickets are now on sale at Batelco Retail Shops for the Bahrain International Airshow 2014, which will take place at the Sakhir Airbase from January 16-18, next year.
Members of the media took part in a cook-off challenge organised by VIVA Bahrain. GulfWeekly’s Charlie Holding tried to take advantage of his diluted Italian heritage to come up with a pizza, though not a prize-winning one.
Singer Chlea Maria Trinidad, pictured above, lit up the stage with her beautiful voice, winning her the title of Seef Junior Superstar and a recording opportunity with Outlaw Productions.
Popular band, The Noise, have won the hearts of music-lovers across the kingdom as well as Bahrain International Circuit’s five-day Musical Competition.
Within just nine months of its launch, VIVA Bahrain’s first Graduate Development programme for talented Bahraini nationals has received regional recognition and was named as the ‘Best Graduate Trainee Programme across Middle East’ at the annual Training & Development Awards for 2013, according to a press release from the telecommunications firm.
I think that Christmas songs are on the verge of extinction. Nat King Cole has been roasting chestnuts since 1946 and Wham started singing about last Christmas nearly 30 years ago. I can think of very few recent additions to the catalogue though I might have missed some; my radio stations of choice don’t play much music released in this century.
