Lindie Naughton

THERE is a noticeable rise in the number of sex-related crimes in this country, a report in an Arabic daily here said, with the item thne picked up by both English-language papersThe report said one can rarely find a session of the criminal court that did not deal with such a case.According to the paper, […]

This country has the highest rate of hospitalisation per head of the population than any other country in the world, I read somewhere. In S8udi, one in three suffer from diabetes and it’s nearly as bad in Gulf states. Now read on (from the local paper)…. Most birth defects in this country are the outcome […]

Eating a Granny Smith with a faint aroma of insecticide, which is slightly numbing to the tongue; lovely (not). It is very difficult to get good fruit and vegetables here and I have become diligent about washing everything. But when you don’t have any water to speak of, you are certainly up against it as […]