COVID is a thorn-like rose

COVID is a thorn-like rose

Vincent Francis,  Printer Almost a year ago, Mother Nature gave us a shock treatment, from which we are yet to recover. Maybe ‘she’ felt it necessary to give us this shock treatment but my God, what a major blow this pandemic has been!What to do?The world turned...
The Mask of Covid

The Mask of Covid

By Tawfiq Ali Salmeen Al Lawati Hasten to take cover with the Covid maskTo perform the major daily task. It surely befriends everyone around Short time back it couldn’t be found. There is so much to its positive sideMany in the beginning used to chide. It plays its...
Labour Ministry Reviews its 2021 Executive Plan

Labour Ministry Reviews its 2021 Executive Plan

MUSCAT (ONA) – The Ministry of Labour held a press conference during which it reviewed its executive plan of action through 2021. The Ministry affirmed that a number of jobs will be unveiled next week and that, this year (2021), it targets the generation of new...
First funeral

First funeral

By Mai Al HinaiI remember the first funeral I had attended, unintentionally of course. I was just a seven year old then, but like kids of my age, with an abundance of curiosity. That day was supposed to be a happy one, but life had other plans – it gave us a different...
Ode to the New Year

Ode to the New Year

By Tawfiq Ali Salmeen Al Lawati High upon the yonder mountain top ​Rises the sun with its gleaming hope Ushering in the long-waited year ​Taking away last year’s fear. With its bright crimson and flaming rays ​ Ushers in the year with promising days Come hither thou...
One ‘Flu’ over the COVID’s nest

One ‘Flu’ over the COVID’s nest

A Black & White feature Is that COVID…is that Coronavirus…  No it is flu – just flu — Influenza! Most of us who are at the wrong end of a cold, fever or throat pain, cough or stomach ailments are suddenly gripped by the fear that this could be the onset...
Biggest challenge will be the aftermath of the COVID

Biggest challenge will be the aftermath of the COVID

Suparna Kudva Nair Homemaker, (OMAN) Then we will feel the pinch of the transition The COVID-19 Coronavirus has come and it is going to stay for some time – that is a given. Nothing that we have done so far has managed to dislodge it from its firm grip on humanity....