QATAR QUESTIONS

Qatar needs an OSHA



The Poo Pit!



Dust Storm

After nearly 2 years in Qatar I have unanswered questions:

1. (See first photo above) Why do you allow/require workers to climb tall structures without some sort of safety system? (I looked at this guy with my telephoto lens - he was not clipped on to anything. We see this sort of thing all the time.)

2. What is my address? Why do only a few streets have names?

3. Why does one get about 20 packets of ketchup with every pizza delivery from Papa John's, Pizza Hut and Dominoes? Does anyone really put ketchup on pizza? And, why when you get french fries from McDonald's, Burger King, etc; do they only give you one packet of ketchup?

4. Why does Starbucks open so late (8:30 am) in the morning?

5. Why does this place often smell like sewage? (see answer below)

6. Why, in a country of one million people is there not a sewage treatment plant? (see photo of me, above, at the poo pit. Sewage is flushed into large holding tanks then trucked to this pit and dumped in.)

7. Why won't you allow dogs in the (few) public parks?

8. Why do you build large office buildings with tiny parking lots?

9. Why don't you wear seatbelts?

10. Why are there so many half built buildings? (there is a mosque and a house across the street from our house that have been under construction since we arrived 2 years ago. Very rarely do we see any work on them.)

11. Why do most of the smaller stores close between 1 and 4 pm?

12. Why, on Friday, do the larger stores open for a few hours in the morning, then close and reopen at 4 pm? If you are trying to keep the holy day holy haven't you ruined that by opening in the morning?

13. Why are foreign laborers not allowed in the malls and souk on Fridays - their only day off?