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Doha Today

Media Scan June 03, 2014

Published: 04 Jun 2014 - 08:37 am | Last Updated: 26 Jan 2022 - 05:13 pm

•    There is talk in social media about the Supreme Education Council’s decision not to register the children of Bedouin who hold only travel documents and no passport, in Independent schools.
•    The authorities have been urged to monitor youth riding motorcycles that make a loud noise, causing panic among other motorists when they go past them. People have urged the Traffic Department to punish these youth.
•    There is talk about the removal of the clock roundabout as part of the plan to replace all roundabouts with intersections to improve traffic flow.
•    There are demands to speed up excavation work on C-Ring Road, which is hindering traffic flow and causing problems to motorists.
•    Visitors to beaches have complained about motorcycle and scooter users posing a threat to people’s lives on the shore as well as in the water, and want to know what the authorities are doing about it.
•    Several parents have urged the Supreme Education Council to ensure that private schools end classes at 12 noon, as Independent schools have started doing in summer.
•    There are frequent demands from some patients and visitors to Hamad General Hospital that staff who know Arabic be stationed at the reception, as many people cannot communicate in English.
•    The authorities have been urged to monitor commercial centres and storage facilities, many of which have poor cooling systems that cannot keep foodstuff in a good condition.