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Articles of the author Yousuf Al Muhaimeed
A Ramadan without maids
Al-Jazirah WHEN the holy month of Ramadan approaches every year, markets across the Kingdom become busy with men and women engaged in large-scale shopping day and night. They purchase everything ahead of the fasting month, not only foodstuffs but (...)

11 - 05 - 2017
Fees on expatriates
Al-Jazirah THE general budget for the fiscal year 2020 targets to generate about SR65 billion in revenues annually through fees levied on expatriate workers and their dependents, according to foreign consultancy firms that formulated these (...)

29 - 01 - 2017
A new tourism strategy needed
THE annual spending by Saudis on foreign tourism has crossed SR70 billion. This means we have been competing with expatriate workers in transferring huge amounts abroad, denying our country valuable money, which should have been spent inside the (...)

08 - 08 - 2016
Hotel for single women
SOME opinion writers say the government works for the overall progress of the society exceeding people's expectations while there are others who believe that the government has yet to adopt vital decisions to enhance progress and prosperity of (...)

18 - 07 - 2016
What comes after stolen parks?
THOSE who are aware of how municipalities in big cities were earlier functioning won't find it strange to read that 111 parks were restored to municipality ownership out of 500 that had been illegally acquired and encroached upon. Investigations (...)

22 - 06 - 2016
The importance of museums
A country that does not have museums suffers from Alzheimer's, because it has no recollection of the past. While a book is a vessel for recording these memories, and displaying the history of nations, peoples, and their stories, it remains a mental (...)

08 - 03 - 2016
Naimi's remarks on shale
RUSSIA Today's Arabic website recently published a report on Saudi Arabia's Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Naimi's speech in Houston with a provocative and misleading headline: "Saudi Arabia affirms continuation of its war on (...)

06 - 03 - 2016
Why Saudis want to quit private sector
Al-Jazirah During a presentation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman program for human resources development, the minister of civil service urged young Saudis to work for the private sector. He, however, noted that more than 190,000 (...)

03 - 03 - 2016
Issues in recruitment of maids
I RECENTLY received a call from Labor Minister Mufrej Al-Haqabani. During that telephone conversation he answered to my queries on recruitment of domestic servants in an organized and convincing manner. In a previous article I had written about the (...)

29 - 02 - 2016
Maid recruitment from GCC
PRESS reports have said the Labor Ministry is studying prospects of allowing recruitment firms in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states to export domestic helps to Saudi Arabia. It seems that the ministry has admitted its failure 10 years after (...)

28 - 02 - 2016
Unemployed postgraduates
Al-Jazirah An official report issued by the Ministry of Civil Service in June disclosed that more than 700,000 Saudis, including 149 holding doctoral degrees, were seeking jobs in the government sector. I still remember a former deputy minister (...)

21 - 02 - 2016
Shop closure at 9 p.m.
Al-Jazirah We have become used to hear and read reports about an imminent decision to close shops by 9 p.m. There is nothing unusual in this decision as in most countries including some US states and most European countries shops are closed early (...)

09 - 02 - 2016
Saudi women still remain sidelined
SEVERAL years ago, the government had embarked on a major reform through the creation of separate sections for women at the ministries and other government organizations. This was aimed at serving two major goals. One is facilitating government (...)

10 - 12 - 2015
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