EDITORIAL

We must always look forward and improve our standards to progress, but it is also important to sometimes look back and be grateful to not lose touch with our roots and to even learn lessons from the past. On the 115th National Day it is a time to look back …

One of the depressing things about reading the annual RAA report is not just the findings, but how the findings seem to repeat over the years and quite frequently the agencies and at times even the characters. There is almost a Déjà vu feeling about the whole thing and you …

In 2008 soon after MPs were elected to their posts they started getting calls from constituents requesting for voucher recharges and many complied. It was from then that our political thinking and culture took a very wrong turn with people expecting soelra and gifts from politicians for their votes. The …

One key aspect of the recent Royal Address in the Parliament was that despite a lot of budget and time spent in the past to address various issues facing the nation, the outcome was not satisfactory. The address in essence brought out the repeated failures of the governance system and …

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 …