• Talk about cancellation of a plan to stage a protest in solidarity with Qatari citizen Ali bin Saleh Al Marri, who is detained in the United States, following a request from the detainee after US authorities accepted his demand to let his family visit him and he was allowed to get medical treatment.
• Complaints about taxi drivers not switching on the meter, overcharging passengers and ferrying only those who agree to pay what they demand.
• Teachers of independent schools are shocked to see some training centres preparing and selling, for QR7,000 to QR10,000, documents that teachers are required to submit to get a professional licence.
• Talk about 97 percent of Qatar’s population being satisfied with their lives, as revealed in a survey conducted by Qatar Statistic Authority.
• Talk about a plan by the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning to distribute 5,000 plots of land among citizens in Al Wakra, behind Al Wakra Hospital.
• The authorities urged to speed up approval of the health insurance law, making it mandatory for private firms to provide health insurance to their employees, to reduce the burden on HMC’s emergency unit and the health centres.
• Complaints from some parents about some independent schools asking students to do their homework online, and not checking the homework.
• Talk about the central fish market opening to the public in the evening for a month on a trial basis to see if it is beneficial to the consumers, fishermen and traders.
• Demand for strict monitoring of schools to curb the use of ‘sweika’ (a type of tobacco) by students.
• Demand to train HMC’s ambulance crew and those assigned to receive emergency calls, and for a drive to educate people about the emergency services and the ambulance service, in collaboration with Qatar and Al Rayyan television channels.
