EDITORIAL

Complacency and COVID fatigue seems to be setting in as people abandon COVID-19 protocols and increasingly flout the very conditions laid down after the second lockdown. Archery played a major role in the spread of the virus during the second outbreak and so the government limited it to only 10 …

As the monthly income support scheme and the 50 percent interest waiver drew to a close in March many wondered what would happen in the coming months. However, in an unprecedented move His Majesty The King extended the Kidu for another 15 months this time pouring in precious funds painstakingly …

Finally, what our leaders and health authorities have been warning about for weeks have come true with a third outbreak from the community in Phuentsholing, with a student and mother testing positive followed by five more cases. This is in addition to four frontline workers on quarantine duty in Phuentsholing …

In this time of pandemic, everyone from His Majesty The King granting various Kidus to ordinary citizens coming forward with donations, were all aimed at lightening the enormous economic impact of COVID-19 on our society and people. However, at such a time Thimphu Thromde and its elected representatives decided to …

Bhutan’s national vaccination campaign is going well with large numbers of people getting vaccinated within a week to the extent that Bhutan is number two in the world when it comes to the share of people getting the first dose. Our health workers and the public must be congratulated for …

When Bhutan had the first case followed by imported cases in quarantine and the first local transmission outbreak in Phuentsholing we all desperately prayed for a vaccine. The situation became even more dire during our second outbreak in December 2020 as we saw how quickly the virus could come in …

The world including neighboring India are witnessing a rising second wave of COVID-19 infections. This second wave is led by new strains and mutations of the virus that are spreading faster and stronger. If there is one thing that the pandemic has shown, it is that societies that have trust …

A good reason that many of us are hale and hearty today and are not afflicted by anything from polio to small pox is due to the many successful vaccination programs. If one looks at the infant mortality rate of children in Bhutan before vaccinations and modern medicine, it was …

In 2011, based on investigative reports by the Editor of this paper a special RAA report said that in 2007 the actual legal Bhutan Lottery turnover in India was Nu 263.6 bn but Bhutan was only getting a fractional Nu 210 mn of this. Bhutan being taken for such a …

In 2008 the then PHPA MD convinced the cabinet to shift the P-1 dam location to the current site which in all eventuality will now have to be abandoned with billions in losses. Nobody thought to ask if adequate studies had been done on the new site. Bhutanese hydro officials …