Malls must update websites

A readers urges shopping malls to update their websites. Other topics: Ramadan, sugar tax, will registration, film shooting

A reader urges shopping malls to update information on their websites. Mona Al Marzooqi / The National

I find it incredible that websites of malls in Abu Dhabi cannot give basic information on Ramadan opening hours.

It causes confusion every year, but they never seem to learn from it.

The most recent information I could find quickly was for 2015, and that was published in The National.

Name withheld by request

Ramadan is time to start practising virtues

This is the time to pray, to forgive, forget and learn compassion (The true meaning of the holy month, May 28). We should thank God for being able to live in a place that is safe and secure, a place that is in search of happiness, a place still untouched by the sense of gloom and doom that pervades much of the rest of the world.

Ramadan does not mean that we have to practise these virtues for only a particular time. Rather it means that we learn to practise these virtues from this particular month.

Most of us forget them after Ramadan ends. That does not mean anything. The annual occasion is just a reminder that with our goodness we must overcome the powers of evil.

On this holy occasion, I pray for world peace and prosperity. I pray for millions of people who do not have the privileges we enjoy here and who live in an atmosphere of fear, threat and deprivation.

May Allah protect all of them.

Ali Ahmed, Dubai

Promote health with tax money

Regarding the article UAE's sugar tax 'not the only answer to curbing country's health issues' (May 26), unless the tax is being used towards promotion of healthier lifestyles, this can be seen as just another excuse to make more money.

James Fildes, Dubai

Good move on will registration

Many non-Muslim expatriates with businesses and assets in Abu Dhabi have been waiting for this welcome news about a wills registry in the emirate (UAE's non-Muslim expats now have a will for a way, May 24).

While we await further information as to the procedure and government department that will handle registration of wills, we are very pleased that the charge of Dh500 is reasonable and will encourage many people to register.

If Abu Dhabi is able to charge this fee, why is it that the fees charged by the DIFC Wills and Probate Registry are so prohibitive?

Considering the large non-Muslim population of Dubai, fewer than 3,000 wills are registered, because it costs Dh10,000 to register a single will.

DIFC should follow Abu Dhabi’s lead and make wills registration more accessible by charging a reasonable fee.

Jennifer Castro, Abu Dhabi

We need to use water efficiently

In reference to the opinion article The solid science behind the dream of floating icebergs to Fujairah (May 26), it is such an old-world approach. We all know that an efficient use of water can ease water problems to a large extent. Sustainable development cannot rely on far-fetched and vain initiatives.

Nicolas Benoit, Dubai