Dubai: A developer delivering a promise via a WhatsApp message? A few property owners in Dubai are finding that this has come to cost them quite a bit.
It was last year that a developer with a soon-to-be-handed over project at JVC (Jumeirah Village circle) informed property owners that any of them hit by a job loss or salary cut due to the pandemic would be offered lenient terms on their pending payments. A senior official with the developer sent messages to owners over WhatsApp saying any concerns they have will be addressed immediately.
One owner had lost her job mid last year and was placed in a tight spot when it came to getting a mortgage on the apartment. The owner duly sounded out representatives from the developer, and one of them wrote back: ‘We will not charge you any penalty for late payment in case of delay [of] mortgage as we discussed.’ This was in August last year.
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Dubai: An Emirati man has been accused of threatening a Dubai teenager to publish old nude pictures of the boy if he didn’t send more pictures for him.
According to the Dubai Court of First Instance on Sunday, the 31-year-old Emirati defendant send messages to the teenager via Telegram, asking him to send the pictures of himself on March this year.
The 17-year-old Emirati teenager alerted his brother before filing a case at Hatta Police Station. “The defendant contacted me after he was released from jail. We used to talk about many issues until he asked me to record myself naked and send the pictures for him,” said the Emirati teenager.
The NCM said that low clouds are expected in Eastern parts of the country Dubai skyline Image Credit: Antonin Kelian Kallouche/Gulf News
Dubai: Hot weather is expected across most parts of the UAE today again. According to the National Center of Meteorology, the maximum temperatures in the country will hit 49°C today. However, the eastern coastal areas of the country like Fujairah, are expected to see partly cloudy weather.
According to the NCM: [The weather will be] Sunny to partly cloudy in general, hot and hazy at times during daytime. Low clouds appear over the East coast by morning, with a probability of some convective clouds formation by afternoon Eastward.
Dubai: UAE residents are flying out to Georgia, Armenia and Serbia during the upcoming six-day Eid break, with these countries taking full advantage of travellers’ need to have quarantine-free stays. Some of the tour packages to these destinations are sold out, according to travel industry sources, with the offered rates being another major pull.
In recent days, interestingly, two African destinations – Zanzibar and Kenya - too have shot up in prominence as Eid and summer getaway spots for UAE travellers. But travel plans for Western European destinations will still need some time to get going, industry sources say, despite airlines offering summer rebates and more.