Driving standards in Dubai

Kettle calling the pot black.....

Visions of Grandeur

Something's not right here.... yep those pipes are a safety hazard - someone is bound to trip on it.

Now where is that darned crane. I keep misplacing the bloody thing. I wish they would make them a bit bigger so they are more noticeable.

Is that Grosvenor house in the top left?? I guess the flooded area must be the new prestigious underwater development we have been hearing so much about.

Dubai Labour Shortage

Dubai has been hit with an acute labour shortage.

The constant bad press generated by those "strikes" by those ungrateful subcon workers has resulted in a drop in the number of subcons getting onto the plane to Dubai.

With the rapidly disintegrating situation a younger and less troublesome group are now being actively recruited from across the world.

Being smaller has its advantages as we can now squeeze 3 times as many into rooms and buses. And they work for a handful of candies.

The first project this new workforce has been given is to paint some new signs along the world famous Shk Zayed Roads.

Here is one of them hard at work: