After all the talk and complaints at dinner tables, social gatherings and among friends, your ability or inability to cast your vote on the poll day will decide if you have an impact or not. A democracy, no matter how decentralized or free, with all its checks and balances, …

The common forum in Paro commenced from the May 11 from Naja gewog and was completed successfully on May 16 in Luni gewog. The candidates are now busy with their door-to-door campaigns across the constituency. DNT’s candidate designate Nima Tshering explained his party’s ideology, pledges from the party manifesto, and …

NSB officials say that Labour Ministry’s unemployment rate should logically be higher than that of NSB, as the ministry’s survey is focused more in urban areas with higher unemployment In what may cast serious doubts on the incumbent government’s claims of having exceeded its unemployment target of 2.5 percent, the …

The residents of Gyelpozhing seem to be frustrated about the appearance of the Giant African Land Snail (GALS), despite collecting repeatedly and dumping them. The outbreak of GALS, an exotic species native to Africa was reported in Gyelpozhing since 2010. Many residents in Gyelpozhing are frustrated about the snails and …

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) supporters and well wishers received the party president Tshering Tobgay in Trashiyangtse. Right after meeting the people in town, the president along with his wife and the supporters proceeded towards the auditorium where more than 200 people were patiently awaiting the president. After greeting the …

A respected American Novelist Mark Twain once wrote, ““There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” This 1906 line used countless times since may come to haunt the incumbent government, which claimed to have halved poverty from 23.2 percent in 2007 to around 12 percent in 2012 …

The South Thimphu People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidates have lashed out at Druk Phuensum Tshogpa (DPT) statement made earlier about common forums during the recently conducted PDP press conference. The DPT had stated that common forums are not required. “We are talking about the people when we are talking about …

The public were not ‘well-informed’ was the reason cited by the Druk Nyamrup Tshogpa (DNT) candidates for the no-show affair at the recently conducted South Thimphu common forum. At a DNT press conference held yesterday DNT’s South Thimphu candidate designate Dr Lotay Tshering said he does not know who is …

Some recent instances have brought the issue of free speech during the 2013 elections to the fore. There was a formal complaint by the DPT against ‘anonymous users’ of defaming them, and violating social media rules. A look at the social media will show the other parties and its leaders …

The Bhutan Poverty Analysis 2012 report by the National Statistical Bureau (NSB) shows a growing gap between the rich and the poor in Bhutan. Simply put, if the Bhutanese population was divided into five categories, from the poorest to the richest, the gap between the poorer and richer categories is …