• There is talk about the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning possibly taking action to remove vehicles parked on roads by car shops.
• People are talking about the first bus to carry a ‘Made in Qatar’ label.
• People are divided over Qtel’s new name, Ooredoo, since it is not written in Arabic.
• A number of parents and directors of independent schools want nurses in schools on all days, instead of two days a week, to attend to emergency cases.
• There is demand for review of the maximum speed limit on February 22 road to prevent traffic jams.
• People are discussing appointment of a non-Qatari as chief executive for human resources at Sidra Medical and Research Center, wondering where the Qatarisation programme is going.
• There is suggestion to impose fines on runaway workers once they are caught, to check the phenomenon of workers absconding.
• People are demanding more health centres to cope with the growing population, as a large number of expatriates are being transferred to the Mesaimeer health centre, where they face crowding and long waiting times.
• There is demand for monitoring workers at petrol stations, where they are allegedly tampering with meters to supply less than the displayed quantity of fuel.
• There are discussions in the social media about the opening of the Ikea store, the largest in the region, which offers products at competitive prices.
