Rice&mobiles
Jawad Ali, a Muscat-based business analyst says: “Inflation is just a natural market phenomenon. And it is not one-sided. If there is a rise in price somewhere, there is a fall somewhere too. While the price of rice may be high, your mobile bill is not as much as it used to be earlier. Also, with a recharge for RO1, you can now speak for longer than you could talk, say, in January this year. Cell phones and electronic items are also becoming cheaper by the day. Anita Joseph
Jawad, I thank you for this piece of information but if the stomach is empty, I don't feel like talking too much .
H.M. vacation in Italy continues : people still fancying to meet him but no way .
In general locals are happy at least for the fact that his staff is spending lot of money in hotels and shops and are amazed for the Sultan generosity :
same as it happened for another vacation in Naples in 2003, a concert of the Royal Orchestra will be offered and gifts will be distributed to the population .
Journalists are bit disappointed and sometimes criticise a lot : they can't get used to the fact that our Sultan is not like Diana and Charles . He is there for a private vacation so he is not doing public appearances .
Am trying my best to explain this on their sites, not sure am succeeding : they're still of the idea that Arab royals are spoiled .
Everyone is hoping in some investment in Bari : apparently Oman is the only Gulf country not to have big commercial deals .
There was a good one for Sicily in 2006 when Cantieri Navali Rodriguez won the bid for 5 fast catamarans that should be delivered to the Sultanate [value 90 millions dollars] before the end of the year : H.E. Macki went to Messina for inspection .
Haras 1 is ready




