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Lyonchhen Tshering Tobgay, in the monthly meet the press, said that based on what he had seen in the newspapers, he welcomed the Royal Civil Service Commission’s (RCSC) maternity leave proposal. The Prime Minister also called it a progressive proposal from the RCSC. He said that the Cabinet would sit …
Read More »Govt creates a new SOE for Duty Free Shops
Thimphu’s duty free shop, located along the Norzin Lam, is an iconic landmark where senior bureaucrats and politicians go to get their annual quota of duty or tax free shopping in the form of mainly fine wine and the occasional perfume. The shop also does brisk business with many tourists, …
Read More »RCSC proposes 6 months maternity leave plus 6 months flexi time
The Royal Civil Service Commission (RCSC) has finalized its proposal on maternity leave, and is expected to put it up for approval by November 2015. This is after the government put up a proposal for maternity leave to the RCSC in January 2015, in line with its own election promise. …
Read More »Govt’s Law Review Taskforce finds many laws are ‘missing’, in conflict and not implemented
You may have heard of people and things going missing, but Bhutan is facing a unique situation of enacted laws going ‘missing,’ among many other major legal anomalies found by the Law Review Task Force, set up by the Cabinet on 20th April 2015. The government set up the task …
Read More »Larger questions hang over private practice
MoH proposes to RCSC to hire retiring doctors on a special contract This paper in its last issue published an open letter by an eminent former Dungtsho Sherab Jorden, who announced that he would no longer see patients after he was served a letter by the Bhutan Medical and …
Read More »Economics, English I, Dzongkha I & II papers also leaked but only English II went beyond one student: RBP Report
Govt completes BCSEA paper leak investigation The Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) investigation into the English paper II leak during the class 12 Bhutan Higher Secondary Examination Certificate (BHSEC) board examinations has found that more papers were leaked then initially assumed. In addition to English II the other papers leaked were Economics, …
Read More »How Bhutan-Maldives match broadcast got delayed by 40 minutes
If the national football team was having a bad first half conceding three goals, things were not going any better for the Bhutan Broadcasting Service (BBS) which had its live broadcast delayed by 40 minutes. Many people across the nation were left perplexed in front of their television screens as …
Read More »Daughter and wife of deceased patient appeals for systemic improvements
Tashi Tshering (43), the patient at the heart of the Druk Air deplaning controversy passed away on Thursday 1st October at 8 pm in Bangkok Hospital after fighting for his life for the past few days. Yesterday, this paper talked to the daughter Dolka Tenzin (17) and the wife Tenzin …
Read More »MoIC working on new aviation guidelines to avoid such cases
Bhutan Civil Aviation Authority to ask Druk Air for report on deplaning of patient The recent deplaning of a medical patient Tashi Tshering over smell concerns by Druk Air will not end at a few press releases. The Minister for Information and Communication (MoIC) Lyonpo D.N Dhungyel said that the …
Read More »BCCI President announces resignation over lack of progress in private sector
The Bhutan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI) president Ugen Tsechup Dorji has announced that he would be resigning by the end of November 2015, a good four months before his three year term ends in March 2016. Ugen Tsechup said that he is stepping down because in spite of …
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