A message of support from the Burj Khalifa
Kudos for the support for women with breast cancer! I wish that the entire world could unite for a common goal (‘Watch: Burj Khalifa goes pink for breast cancer awareness’, Gulf News, October 13). We all need to fight all these dreadful diseases instead of each other! Thank you for this wonderful message of support and cancer treatment for those who are afflicted with this awful disease!
From Mr Oscar Bolda
UAE
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A beautiful message
The pink lights on the Burj Khalifa for breast cancer awareness were beautiful and the message is more beautiful. I hope it receives a lot of attention.
From Ms Jane Ann
UAE
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Prayers for those affected
A prayer for cancer survivors, those going through treatment and their carers – and that includes doctors and nurses who work so hard. Please raise cancer awareness!
From Ms Wendy Lee
UAE
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Many illnesses
I love the gesture and I think we should work more to promote cancer awareness. So many people are dying from hunger and disease as well. It’s all very sad. Let’s work to make the world a better place.
From Mr Irfan Khalid
UAE
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Taking care
God bless all. Cancer is such a scary illness. All women need to be careful and go for regular check-ups. I believe that stress is also a big factor for certain types of cancer, as well as lack of proper sleep. The authorities should look into giving more facilities, especially for working women.
From Mr Kant Chander
Dubai
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Awareness for check-ups
This is amazing and unbelievable! Only in Dubai could they imagine to create this event to alert the female population for doing annual check-ups! Bravo!
From Ms Niki Agnanti
UAE
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Reducing accidents
I think it’s a great idea to take strict action on traffic offenders (‘Strict action must be taken against traffic offenders’, Gulf News, October 14). I admire Gulf News for relentlessly pursuing efforts to stop these senseless killings and maiming on the roads. In my opinion, the reasons for accidents is the attitude of drivers and using the phone while driving – especially texting. A driver moving at 100km/h in the fast lane and refusing to move is also a danger to other road users. We all need to use the correct lane, according to speed, otherwise it makes other motorists do lane changes that are dangerous.
I believe there needs to be more action on ‘danger zones’ around the country. I can predict – and I have predicted – trouble spots where accidents have happened repeatedly. It will happen again and again.
Being an aviation safety expert, I suggest removing road hazards that are obvious. We can’t expect the police to employ hundreds of security/safety staff, so I suggest help from well-qualified, safe drivers to be community police helpers on the roads.
From Mr Kanwar Hayat
Dubai
Focus on renewable energy
Solar power is the key to the future energy and the initiative by the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology and the UAE Ministry of Energy to promote and do research is really commendable (‘Solar Power the Key to energy efficiency’, Gulf News, October 12). As we all know, the sun is a primary source of energy and research says two minutes of sun can provide energy for one year. Now more countries are into solar energy and in future I do hope the technology will develop in such a way that we power our gadgets such as mobile phones. All households should be equipped with their own solar panels to tap power and excess energy should go to the national grid. Energy conservation should be our prime concern and we should focus on clean energy so that fossil fuels and CO2 emissions can be eliminated.
From Mr Eappen Elias
Dubai
Creating an effective team
This new government of Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala, India is intent to give some good governance to the people of Kerala (‘Nepotism storm puts CPM in a fix’, Gulf News, October 14). Vijayan’s initiative in all departments to bring in the best efforts from all ministerial colleagues should have started showing results by now. Instead a few colleagues like E. P. Jayarajan and P. K. Sreemathy are probably showing the public their own interests on priorities rather than taking care of the public at large. This will make changes in the public minds and the results will come out in the form of government ratings in future.
The present form of showing interest on future prospects will backfire on the whole system. Therefore, the chief minister should come out with more good ideas and solutions to keep the ministries busy and addressing public grievances.
Thanks to Jayarajan for the initiatives. The opposition had no actual causes to accuse the government, but then these elements have given them unrest. I wish the chief minister could bring in the best efforts to discipline these elements at the earliest and he means best business on a whole.
Take strict measures, as they are needed to ensure no unwanted issues are brought in for wasting the time of governance and public money.
From Mr M. K. Gunaseelan
Abu Dhabi
Practise what you preach
It is really shameful that, at the drop of a hat, each and every political party in India will call for a strike to inconvenience the common man. Though the Congress party is right in condemning the Kerala shutdown on October 13 and calling the violence “barbaric”. It’s an assault on the citizens’ rights to live and we would like their wisdom when the Karnataka, India government called for a shutdown on the Cauvery River issue. Hundreds of buses and trucks have been torched and forced the Tamil population in Karnataka to flee the State? The worst affected during such strikes are the travelling public who plan and book their tickets well in advance. It is very easy to preach than to practice. Every political party in our country seldom values the rights of citizens of this country and loss to public properties. I feel such strikes should be banned and the political parties who call for such disturbances should be penalised for the losses to the public.
From Mr N. Mahadevan
Mylapore, India
Faded before blooming
The tragic end of the Samsung Note 7 stunned mobile users worldwide and exposed the potential hazards that devices might cause to human life, especially when travelling (‘Samsung cuts profit by $2.3b after killing Note 7’,Gulf News, October 12). The debacle of the Note 7 and the substantial damage it caused to the reputation of the smartphone company can be ascertained only in the coming days and months. The recall may have caused a loss of almost $5 billion (Dh18.4 billion) to the company besides shattering the sales prospects of flagship products. I think the company gave much importance to new features in the device and other factors such as safety of battery used in it, its suitability and efficiency during charging were overlooked. The debacle of Samsung will give a competitive edge to their arch rival Apple iPhone that may monopolise the entire mobile phone industry. The role of Samsung as a whole in the world of technology and innovation cannot be ignored with an occasional error. Surely this is only a temporary setback for Samsung and the company will be back on track very soon.
From Mr Girish R. Edathitta
Dubai
Dealing with greedy scammers
Gulf News is doing a great job by teaching readers how not to be a victim of a scam that could be different and more brilliant the next time around (‘Yet another trading scam rocks Dubai’, Gulf News, October 13). A scammer does not require brilliance, he/she only needs to be greedy to take someone’s hard earned money.
There are daily invites to investment opportunities where the investor is promised 40 to 50 per cent profit every month in the form of a post-dated check. A husband and wife team of doctors conned innocents by this scheme. An old, retired, sick man found these con artists ‘respectable’ and told his family that they would no longer need to leave the UAE. He said that we would be well looked after with more income than before. But it was too good to be true.
Cheques came crashing down. No money comes. Fortunately for this old man, the police and Dubai Courts ensured justice. Judgement and execution ensured the return of the investment amount. I have been scammed with an email in the past.
From Mr K. H.
Dubai
Name withheld by request
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