Hopping around with Hopibi: No handshakes or Hi-5s, please

Over the past week, I have come across so many people in Muscat who seem to be taking the latest situation concerning the coronavirus outbreak lightly. Hello, please don’t hold out your hand when greeting someone! Let alone using sanitisers or washing hands with soap and water regularly to keep the virus at bay, some […]

GRATITUDE 50-Tribute to late HM Sultan Qaboos

Twenty-seven artists together paint a gigantic tribute to late HM, Sultan Qaboos bin Said For the 27 artists who came together to paint a tribute portrait of the Late His Majesty Sultan Qaboos bin Said, strokes of their paintbrushes communicated to the world what that their words couldn’t convey. For years, resident artist Martin Mbute, […]

Oman’s ‘swimming doctor’ to return home

By Hubert [divider height=”30″ style=”default” line=”default” themecolor=”1″] After training swimmers in Muscat for free for over three decades, it’s now time for Dr Rajendra Sanghavi to bid good-bye  to Oman With over three and a half decades of voluntarily training swimmers in Muscat for free, Dr Rajendra Sanghavi, an expatriate general practitioner who converted his […]

COVID-19 alert – Keep safe distance

By Hubert [divider height=”30″ style=”default” line=”default” themecolor=”1″] Visiting COVID-19 management expert shares some cautions and concerns The buzzword in Oman currently is ‘Keep safe distance’ as people have been advised to cut out all social interaction, be it making courtesy calls or visiting places of mass contact, and to stay at an arm’s length from […]