EDITORIAL

The Property Tax Bill is a long due up gradation of the land and property taxes stuck since 1992. However, what does not make sense in this bill is the provision to transfer the local land and property taxes collected so far in local government CD accounts into the central …

In the last year of any elected government, they normally stay a mile away from any controversial decisions or legislations that would impact its political prospects. The most controversial of these are tax legislations that increases taxes. However, almost counterintuitively this government has already introduced two major tax legislations that …

The transformation reforms from its inception has generated much speculation, but His Majesty’s detailed Royal Address to the Parliament not only clarified all confusions but also showed that the reforms are keeping the people at its very center. His Majesty’s impactful words that the people cannot serve the RCSC, RMA, …

The Psychiatry Department of the JDWNRH in the space of the last two weeks are counseling 5 girls from the age of 6 to 9 who have either been raped or there was attempted rape. All of the children are deeply traumatized, but these cases are only a fraction of …

The Ministry of Health which used to share the weekly dashboard with the number of COVID-19 positive cases quietly stopped doing so more than a month ago. There is no longer much advice on avoiding unnecessary mass gatherings, and most indoor meetings are occurring without facemasks. The talk of getting …

On the occasion of the 11th Royal Wedding Anniversary many people shared a picture of His Majesty The King with Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen from last year. The picture was notable as it showed the large amount of weight lost by His Majesty and the visible stress of the pandemic …

It all started with the compulsory resignation of two women foresters which an initially mistaken press release said was for talking to the media, though the actual reason as stated by the Ministry was for insubordination or refusing to follow transfer orders. This was also in the backdrop of the …

Bhutan saw its first school opened in 1914 in Haa and subsequently, especially from the 1960’s, modern education spread far and wide across Bhutan. Modern education in Bhutan started off with government officials having to convince and even order farmers to take their children off the farm and send them …

For a long time, Bhutan has been content to not be like countries in the neighbourhood, and we have rightly been proud about our clean environment, small population, stability and relatively better social and economic indicators than most of our immediate neighbours. However, a series of rude economic shocks in …

The Australia Rush has now developed into a full herd rush as large numbers of the young and even middle-aged professionals head there. However, there are four important things to consider. The first is that this is coming at the loss of very important manpower for Bhutan in the form …