Most readers here will probably recall the pair of news stories a couple of weeks ago when a German tourist cum heart-surgery patient was found penniless, sleeping on a beach, only to be rescued 2-days later by GN readers and resurrected on the newspaper's front page, all smiles.
Again, wow! How many others would love to see their trials and tribulations spread across the front page leading to swift resolution of their problems?
Back to the freehold articles, the more recent one reports,
If homeowners already holding title deeds wish to transfer their property to another party, they must produce a "no objection certificate" supplied by the developer. Nakheel says it charges Dh1,000 for this service, while Emaar Properties levies a Dh5,000 fee.That is just outrageous. Government should look into such practices. Kudos to GN for exposing them and putting on the pressure.
BTW: I love the way linking allows one to reference this or that story so easily with sources and additional content. But have any of you noticed how the online news sites (particularly GN, with which I'm most familiar) fail glaringly to do so. They'll even reference a website in an article and not provide a simple link to it. Why not provide a link to the organization it (GN) refers to in the Ghaf tree story? Why not even provide a link from today's freehold story to yesterday's? Come on, guys--get with the online groove.
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2 comments:
has any1 noticed ,how,for the past few days, in the letters page ,there is a sidebar(of sorts) saying that Gulf news has wrongly reported etc etc? hmmmm.
Ummm...there is a link to the first story on the second one.
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