A note of appreciation

Dear Sir,

Further to my letter “Missing letter in visa documents” (Gulf Times, October 1, 2013), I am happy to note that Qatar’s immigration authorities have corrected the error and Sri Lanka is being properly spelt now, instead of SRILANK as before.

The Immigration Department deserves appreciation for considering the point raised in my letter and acting upon it. And thank you Gulf Times for publishing the original letter of mine, helping bring the issue to the authorities’ attention. 

 Mohideen Bawa, PO Box 22032, Doha

Proper standards

Dear Sir,

There should be proper standards in conducting driving tests. Official examiners must be thorough and impartial too.

My son has failed to get a licence even though he has given four tests in Qatar. He has driving licences in other countries and is a good driver, to my knowledge. But he couldn’t even pass his parking test in Qatar. He did his best in the fourth test but still failed. I got the impression that the officer examining the test was busy on the phone and was not paying full attention.

I admit that in the first test my son had made some mistakes but in the rest of the three tests, he did well but still “failed”.

We belong to a middle-class family and the money spent on my son’s four tests and driver training courses is a big burden for us.

I respect the country’s laws and have been part of its different phases. As a long-time resident, I request officials to be fair in their decisions.

RE, (Full name and e-mail address supplied)

Need to conserve water and power

Dear Sir,

This is in reference to the viewpoint “We must all support efforts to conserve water and power” (Gulf Times, January 26). With Qatar having one of the largest per capita water and power consumption, public awareness must be increased about the need to conserve both. 

Desalinated ocean water is considered to be the most expensive form of fresh water, given the infrastructure costs of collecting, distilling and distributing it.  So people should not waste them, by using it for gardening and washing cars.

Resources should be used economically to conserve them for future use.  Turn off air conditioning systems in unoccupied rooms.

C Robinson, robin_son_ch@yahoo.co.in

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