• Many parents have complained about vehicles passing in front of some primary schools when students gather and play there, without any kind of protection.
• The residents of Al Thumama area have complained of smoke emitted by an organic fertiliser factory in the area, and urged the Ministry of Environment to intervene and take steps to safeguard their health. The residents urged the authorities to adhere to the policy of allowing factories only in places far from residential areas.
• Some people have complained about poor quality honey being sold in the streets and in front of shopping centres by vendors who claim it is original and can cure many ailments. In reality it contains sugar and other ingredients. People are asking what the consumer protection department and the authorities who regulate businesses are doing.
• The authorities have been urged to install more drinking water dispensers along the Corniche, especially since summer has begun, as there are too few of these now and they are all located in one place, which makes visitors to the Corniche suffer.
• It has been suggested that the authorities monitor promotional offers announced by shopping centres, as many of them are fake while in some others old or poor quality products are sold at low prices. This is against the law, which stipulates that the consumers should get goods of reasonable quality and not be deceived by producers or sellers.
• Visitors to beaches have complained about some people parking their caravans on the beach and stopping people from using nearby areas citing their privacy and security. This does not allow other people to use many parts of beaches.
• There is discussion in the social media about online polling conducted by a local daily, in which 80.9 percent of the respondents demanded that the Supreme Education Council revoke the national examinations, while 14.6 percent asked for reducing its share in the students’ final scores.
