familiedag
het blijft de gemoederen bezig houden: family-day. in het kort op bepaalde dagen zijn bepaalde openbare ruimtes alleen toegangkelijk voor families. de spanningen worden veroorzaakt door het feit dat op een populatie van een kleine 300.000 lokalen er zo'n driekwart miljoen ongeschoolde handarbeiders zijn. dit zijn veelal mannen uit lage lonen landen. daarnaast zijn er nog een kwart miljoen expats werkzaam met een hoge(re) opleiding. zij komen veelal uit het europa en of australie.
zo krijg je dus de rijken = qatari en de overwegend blanke expats tegen over de donkere armen.
ondertussen lijkt het of de familiedagen zich uitbreiden en dat alle grote winkelcentra zich aansluiten bij het niet toelaten van vrijgezelle werkers.
uit de gulf times:
ONE more mall announced ‘family only days’ yesterday, making it even more difficult for single men to enter any of the leading shopping centres in the city on weekends.
From this week onwards, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays will be off limit to single men, from 4pm-10pm, at the Hyatt Plaza as its management has decided to finally “curb the ever-increasing movement of bachelors” on its premises.
The ban will be for “bad-smelling, poorly-dressed adult men” but it would not affect those who do not fall in this category, a senior executive said.
“The decision was taken after the incessant flow of low-income workers to our mall on Fridays proved to be inconvenient for families,” the executive said adding: “Hyatt Plaza’s business philosophy is extremely family-centric.”
Previously, it observed family-hours on certain festivals and in-house occasions only.
“We get a large number of workers because of the Villaggio mall nearby, where thousands of labourers pour in on Fridays because of promotions at Carrefour. But they refuse to take them,” he said.
According to him, workers who are turned away from the next-door mall then come to Hyatt Plaza. “We have nothing to offer them. None of our stores caters to their needs,” he said, while adding that “reasonable, decent men” will still be allowed in.
There are close to 1mn labourers in Qatar, out of an estimated population of 1.7mn.
Meanwhile, the ‘bachelor ban’ policy at other leading shopping malls in Qatar continue to perplex and embarrass single men.
City Center yesterday said it was lenient with the bachelors over the past weekend, while others denied reports of doing away with the ‘family only’ policy as reported in a section of the press.
“Bachelors were allowed in at City Center on Friday, because it was the first weekend after Eid holidays and we had not received any instructions from our management,” a security official at Doha’s busiest shopping mall told Gulf Times.
According to him, security supervisors employed by the mall are notified about the policy by the central management on a weekly basis but his team wouldn’t be able to state the stance for next weekend.
An official at the Villaggio mall denied reports of allowing in bachelors last Friday, saying that “we have been observing the weekend ban since our opening in the summer of 2006”.
“Some one most likely was able to sneak in and suggested it is an open day to others as well,” she said.
Villaggio enforces family-only hours between 1.30pm and 11pm on Fridays.
An official of The Mall, another centre that enforces a bachelor ban policy, said their security officials basically differentiated between decency and indecency.
“They (security officials) are there to discourage bachelors harassing girls. They stop school kids and teenagers who create trouble during the family hours,” he said.
“Bad-smelling” and “poorly-dressed” bachelors are not welcome at The Mall on Thursdays and Fridays from 10am to 10pm. Friday has been added after the Eid. The original policy has been in effect since March.
“The security staff are reasonable and will almost always be very cordial and polite,” the official added.
The Mall has a total of six entry and exit points for the general public.
The Landmark has been following a ‘family day’ on Thursday from 3.30pm to 9.30pm, on the basis of a pre-opening survey conducted in 2000.
zo krijg je dus de rijken = qatari en de overwegend blanke expats tegen over de donkere armen.
ondertussen lijkt het of de familiedagen zich uitbreiden en dat alle grote winkelcentra zich aansluiten bij het niet toelaten van vrijgezelle werkers.
uit de gulf times:
ONE more mall announced ‘family only days’ yesterday, making it even more difficult for single men to enter any of the leading shopping centres in the city on weekends.
From this week onwards, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays will be off limit to single men, from 4pm-10pm, at the Hyatt Plaza as its management has decided to finally “curb the ever-increasing movement of bachelors” on its premises.
The ban will be for “bad-smelling, poorly-dressed adult men” but it would not affect those who do not fall in this category, a senior executive said.
“The decision was taken after the incessant flow of low-income workers to our mall on Fridays proved to be inconvenient for families,” the executive said adding: “Hyatt Plaza’s business philosophy is extremely family-centric.”
Previously, it observed family-hours on certain festivals and in-house occasions only.
“We get a large number of workers because of the Villaggio mall nearby, where thousands of labourers pour in on Fridays because of promotions at Carrefour. But they refuse to take them,” he said.
According to him, workers who are turned away from the next-door mall then come to Hyatt Plaza. “We have nothing to offer them. None of our stores caters to their needs,” he said, while adding that “reasonable, decent men” will still be allowed in.
There are close to 1mn labourers in Qatar, out of an estimated population of 1.7mn.
Meanwhile, the ‘bachelor ban’ policy at other leading shopping malls in Qatar continue to perplex and embarrass single men.
City Center yesterday said it was lenient with the bachelors over the past weekend, while others denied reports of doing away with the ‘family only’ policy as reported in a section of the press.
“Bachelors were allowed in at City Center on Friday, because it was the first weekend after Eid holidays and we had not received any instructions from our management,” a security official at Doha’s busiest shopping mall told Gulf Times.
According to him, security supervisors employed by the mall are notified about the policy by the central management on a weekly basis but his team wouldn’t be able to state the stance for next weekend.
An official at the Villaggio mall denied reports of allowing in bachelors last Friday, saying that “we have been observing the weekend ban since our opening in the summer of 2006”.
“Some one most likely was able to sneak in and suggested it is an open day to others as well,” she said.
Villaggio enforces family-only hours between 1.30pm and 11pm on Fridays.
An official of The Mall, another centre that enforces a bachelor ban policy, said their security officials basically differentiated between decency and indecency.
“They (security officials) are there to discourage bachelors harassing girls. They stop school kids and teenagers who create trouble during the family hours,” he said.
“Bad-smelling” and “poorly-dressed” bachelors are not welcome at The Mall on Thursdays and Fridays from 10am to 10pm. Friday has been added after the Eid. The original policy has been in effect since March.
“The security staff are reasonable and will almost always be very cordial and polite,” the official added.
The Mall has a total of six entry and exit points for the general public.
The Landmark has been following a ‘family day’ on Thursday from 3.30pm to 9.30pm, on the basis of a pre-opening survey conducted in 2000.
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