Letters

  • Dubai….get real.

    Dubai….get real.

    I find the whole freeze in rentals a twisted exercise. RERA recently published a rental index …excluding the residential area stating they do not have enough data to print that index. Yet, the new ruling on the rent freeze has a twist that allows rent increase to level at or atleast be at 25% level

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  • It is clearly visible that people are not very tolerant of each other here in Dubai. No surprise there, because with so many nationalities here, everyone is really here to make a life for themselves, so really social interest is not on their agenda. I agree with the writer that Dubai Government does need to

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  • I agree with the statement by the Labour minister in stating that “”It’s the restructuring of the economy rather than labour procedures that will phase out this problem,” of the imbalance in the demographics. Middle East including UAE currently has been the highest importer of Human labour. What we see of Dubai today has been

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  • I think your article is spot on when it comes to the hotel industry in Dubai against what hotels offer across the world. I have stayed in many hotels in the region of Africa, M.East, South Asia and Europe and I find that the hotel rates somehow match up to what the hotel has to

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  • Three things strike out for me in this visa fee hike. One, the fee is very steep and unfair to an already suffering resident of high inflation. Second, the system is discriminatory, as some 16 nationalities would get visa on arrival for AED100. Third, don’t understand the logic of expats not allowed to sponsor friends;

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