EDITORIAL

The Australia Rush has opened our eyes to many things about us and one of them is on bad or toxic bosses. The rush is happening primarily due to economic reasons and for better opportunities, but there are also those who need neither of the above but are still leaving …

For a long time, Bhutan has prized our homogenous people, culture and society as a great strength in dealing with all kinds of challenges. We operate well as a collective or as a team being disciplined and the best example of that was during the pandemic. However, it is time …

Recently a welcome change was seen when some women decided to take up archery. However, in a viral video on social media some male archers were sexually harassing and misbehaving with some women archers at the first opportunity. As with rape, sexual harassment is not about sex but it is …

One of the biggest complaints of ordinary people in Bhutan over the years has been that you cannot get your work done if you do not know someone in an office. This simple line says much more than a voluminous consultant’s report on the problems of governance and service delivery. …

While the first democratic elections in 2008 signaled Bhutan’s turn into a democracy, it also came with a heavy price of political partisanship and divisions. New fault lines opened up in a small country and society that could ill afford it. However, since then, it must be said that every …

As the massive pay hike was rolled out last week there were many grateful people but there were also many who complained that others got more or they got less than expected. The private sector and others outside the charmed circle of these 30,000 civil servants watched on amazed as …

As per the latest data, 15,552 Bhutanese have got visas to Australia in a 12-month period from July 2022 to June end 2023. This is almost as much as Bhutanese moving out in the last seven financial years. It should be clear by now that we have a full scale …

For a long time, the world talked about climate change as something that would be in the future decades down the line once certain temperatures are crossed or carbon in the atmosphere reaches a certain limit. However, the reality is that climate change is already happening and its impacts are …

More than 15,000 Bhutanese will have gotten Australian education visas in a 12-month period from July 2022 to June 2023. This does not take into account an increasing flow towards Canada and the UK and the more than 8,606 who moved to the Middle-East in the last 10 years. On …

The Cabinet in a 5 June 2023 letter to the RMA put forth a wish list of 8 points all to do with the monetary sector. As a result of that letter the RMA suspended the commercial housing and hotel loans and increased the incentive for remittance from 2 to …