In a recent keynote speech at a meeting of the International Council of Nurses, HRH Princess Muna reaffirmed the importance of investing in nursing and midwives in the context of economic development.The acute shortage of nurses and midwives is of deep concern especially in devel

The gag order issued by the government on news regarding Monday's attack on the General Intelligence Department’s office north of Amman is no doubt intended to serve the common good, but this is not how many in the media view the issue.The authorities’ point of view is clear: the

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just concluded another visit to Moscow, the fourth he held with Russian President Vladimir Putin during this last year, for talks on cooperation, especially on the military front, ostensibly to combat terrorism.Netanyahu, conscious of

The Paris meeting, thought to breathe some life into the moribund Palestinian-Israeli talks, ended with a communiqué that contained nothing new or encouraging.Not that much was expected, but somewhere, waiting to timidly sprout, was a seed of hope that maybe the Western powers wo

Five General Intelligence Department (GID) personnel were killed at the GID office in Baqaa, north of Amman, in a heinous crime that reflects the evilness of the perpetrators.The terrorist attack took place on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, the month when people shou

The holy month of Ramadan has just begun and the new government is taking measures to help people during the fasting month; it had, for example, made control of prices, which usually go up during Ramadan, one of its early priorities.On the other hand, the Greater Amman Municipali

Israel has dampened down any hope that the French initiative of convening a meeting in Paris on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict could be in any way successful, even before the meeting started.Dore Gold, the head of Israel’s foreign ministry, went as far as to compare the Paris e

Prime Minister Hani Mulki must already have a clear plan of action, judging from his decision to form a task force, consisting of the three deputy prime ministers to oversee the work ahead.The prime minister has spelled out his government’s roadmap, saying that its efforts will c

Now that Prime Minister Hani Mulki and his Cabinet members have been sworn in, they should waste no time but start implementing His Majesty King Abdullah’s policies, as outlined in the Letter of Designation, in earnest.The number one priority should be preparing the groundwork fo