Café culture...

ACCORDING to Manama Municipal council secretary Jassim Redha the council is coming down heavily on internet cafes and has decided to ban private cabins.
He further says since the number of cafes is increasing enormously, teenagers are getting easy access to pornography.
Earlier some councillors and deputies alleged that some teenage boys and girls used such internet cafes as cheap place of meeting etc. I do not know in which world people like Jassim Redha are living. Do they work just sitting in their offices and homes or practically they do take some pain in visiting the areas from they were elected.
Internet cafes have separate cabins where the young used to see prohibited sites. This was years ago. Today most of the internet cafes have put their computers open with only four-metre high partitions and not closed cabins.
Only a very few still have closed cabins which they are also converting to open spaces. Jassim is wrong that the number of internet cafes is going up. He needs to correct his knowledge.
Internet cafes are decreasing and call centres are increasing. The already existing internet cafes have too converted themselves into telephony call centres as according to them the latter is more profitable.
Almost 90 per cent of internet cafes in the capital have converted their net cabins into phone cabins and only one or two PCs are reserved for internet. In order to provide more cabins for telephony, where there are one or two internet cabins left these are like pigeon holes which can take only one chair with leg turned.
With Batelco's attitude now without first announcing billing Down Loading fee the rest of the cafes are slowly closing the internet facility. People like Jassim Redha if they really want to serve the community, they need to divert their attention to more serious community civic problems.
They must see how old Manama corniche marble benches and trees have been demolished, uninterrupted walkers garden-road side path has been given away to a food outlet by carving a special road for the outlet.
If Jassim and his like are interested they should see how fish are being sold outside Last Chance where hundreds of vehicles throw dust and smoke on this fish and only three yards from there is a waste dump and a toilet.
Bachelors should go out of Manama, gents clothes should not to be hanged on balconies are cheap slogans for the next elections.
One who visits internet cafes does not have net at home