Bhutan’s hoax
Mainstream economists and almost all national bureaucracies around the world use measures such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) or Gross National Product (GNP) to measure and track economic activity. These measurements are evidence-based. Hard data is aggregated and analyzed to come up with a picture of a national economy...
No one wants to handle drug supplies
Shortage of drugs has badly affected the country in recent months. The situation is likely to worsen further in the coming days as the government failed to attract anyone to work as procurement office who will be in charge of the drugs supply. In two years time, none have...
What parliament achieved
The seventh session of the first parliament ended Friday. This time, leaders have better debates compared to past and worked little more on drafting and adopting laws. Many crucial issues have been looked into and bitter relations between the two houses have been normalised. Both the houses were ready...
Tobacco affects Bhutanese leaders, not alcohol
A month after the finalising the draft regulation to control the alcohol consumption in the country, the government took steps that in fact encouraged people to increase it. The government officials say alcohol consumption among educated lot has gone down while the numbers among young people are growing. The...
Bhutan – The Land of Ban
Saturday, June 18, 2011, KUENSEL To supplement what was said in the My Say column regarding the meat ban for two Bhutanese months (first and fourth), I totally agree with what the writer has put down: “lift the ban or impose strongly not to eat meat during the auspicious...
Getting Ready for the Final Phase of Local Elections
By S. Chandrasekharan After many hiccups, the final phase of local elections for the posts of Gups, Mangmis, Tshogpas, Thromde thremis and thromde tshogpas will be taking place on 27 June 2011. There had been considerable delay in holding the elections and it looks that there will be no...