The video and blogpost titled Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed's Eid gift, posted on Facebook, made me cry. Children are innocent and always express themselves in different ways. The child, Saif, who gave Dh5 to Sheikh Mohammed on Eid, is so innocent, but he has a big heart.
Naima Fisk, Abu Dhabi
I love this video. The child loves his prince so much and so genuinely that he gives money to him.
Katherine Strother, Abu Dhabi
This is innocence of youth and purity of the soul. God bless Saif.
Dolores Basilio, Abu Dhabi
More efforts are needed to tackle Ebola epidemic
With reference to the report Ebola deaths hits 4,033: WHO (October 11), the outbreak of ebolavirus in West Africa has shown the limited ability of our public health systems to respond to virulent communicable diseases.
Now what can be done? The medical and public health sectors urgently need to step up efforts to educate people. And rapid, reliable diagnostic procedures must be implemented in key regions within or closer to the areas where these viruses are endemic so that local public health systems do not have to rely on distant reference laboratories. To optimise diagnostic response capabilities, sharing information in real time is absolutely necessary.
Despite years of research on the Ebola virus, it is still not possible to administer vaccines or treatments to those at risk. However, with sustained efforts, we should be able to bridle it.
R Rex, Abu Dhabi
There is no point panicking over Ebola (Abu Dhabi and Dubai airports are not planning to screen for Ebola, October 14). We need to have a proper plan in place. Regular updates should be available to all physicians and emergency response departments so that things are streamlined. This should not be taken lightly. An attitude of "no need to panic, we shall figure it out when it happens" is scary in the current climate.
Jayadevi Machaya Palekanda, Dubai
Another feather in Dubai’s cap
I refer to the article Burj Khalifa's new viewing deck is the highest in the world (October 14).
It is heartening to know that the iconic building has fetched another record for Dubai, this time for the highest observatory deck in the world. Many congratulations to Dubai on yet another remarkable achievement.
Fatima Suhail, Sharjah
Nobel Prize brings chance for peace
For India, Pakistan and the rest of the region, there cannot be better news than two of its people sharing the Nobel Prize (Decision on Nobel winners deserves praise, October 12). For the first time in history, an Indian and a Pakistani have shared the prize, which is significant in many ways: they are fighting for a cause that is holding their respective countries back and showing the world that if you have the will you have the way to accomplish your goals, however difficult they may be.
But the most significant aspect of this honour is that it will give the opportunity to the winners to work together towards a peaceful relationship between the two countries. I wish India and Pakistan could produce more such success stories.
However, I would like to express my disappointment over The National’s coverage of the event. On the front page, it focused only on Malala, leaving Kailash Satyarthi completely out of the picture. I guess it would not have been difficult to carry the picture of both in one frame.
Sunita Joshi, India
Etisalat must focus on customer care
Why doesn't Etisalat concentrate on customer service (Race is on for fastest broadband, October 14)? I have been to various Etisalat "business centres" to inquire about the iPhone 6. They told me they didn't have any, nor did they have any idea when they would and shrugged their shoulders.
Furthermore, we wanted to change a sim card from normal to the small nano ones. They had run out of stock.
Neusha Marie Farley, Abu Dhabi
In my area in Ras Al Khaimah, they don’t provide fibre optic services so we’ve had to put up with the very slow Shamil service for years. The money we pay for this would buy us ultra fast connection with telephone and satellite TV in the UK.
Etisalat promised that by 2012 the whole of RAK would be on fibre optic. It’s nearly the end of 2014 and still no sign of it here.
Eva Jay, Ras Al Khaimah