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Number of registered vehicles in Dubai has increased to 1.83 million this year, compared to 1.4 million in 2015 and 740,000 in 2006.
Also, the number of driver licences has increased to 2.5 million this year, compared to 1.8 million in Dubai.
Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) in Dubai has introduced a number of new smart initiatives to facilitate customers in the wake of increasing number of vehicles and driver licences in the emirate.

Mattar Mohammad Al Tayer, Director-General and Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of RTA, endorsed a package of smart initiatives for improving and sustaining RTA’s services. Initiatives unveiled contribute to sustaining the use of RTA assets, such as roads and bridges, and improve driver and vehicle licensing services, which will improve the quality of customer services and enhance the training and qualification of drivers, and will translate into improved traffic safety levels, RTA said in a press release on Saturday.

In a meeting with the Directors of Licensing Agency, Al Tayer reviewed the performance indicators of the agency over the first five months of 2020. It was reported that the number of active driver licences in Dubai amounted to 2.5 million, while the number of registered vehicles reached 1.83 million. The Agency processed 2.447 million transactions comprising 1.6 million vehicle-licensing transactions, 760,000 driver-licensing transactions, and 4,300 no-objection transactions for commercial activities. The numbers reveal that in Dubai, effectively every second person now owns a car. The number of digital transactions processed increased from 59 per cent in December 2019 to 69 per cent in Improved Testing.

Brooker and Bozar are 2 young artists from Vienna who have been collecting six-figure clicks in no time with their Autotune anthems since May 2019.
Within 9 months, the two newcomers have already released 10 singles and, with their catchy harmonies, have already inspired tens of thousands of people with their music.
With a mixture of pop and rap, the two provide ear catch and entertainment factor in their tracks.

With their single “BB for President”, the two also criticized the political situation in Austria due to the beginning of the last National Council elections and caused a real uproar.

WHO ARE BROOKER & BOZAR ?

The musical streak of the two artists formed as a child.

Brooker (Ben) started playing guitar when he started elementary school and gave several guitar concerts to hundreds of people as a child. He founded a band with his current producer (Lukas) Basic Bitch at a young age, but it quickly disbanded.

Bozar (Fabian) was also drawn to the guitar at the age of 6 and learned the instrument. Within the next youth years he founded a band and was among other things in the Dominican choir. There he discovered his love for chanting and started writing his first rap lyrics early.

(Ben and Fabian) Brooker and Bozar met about 5 years ago in the Hietzinger area (1140 Vienna). What was known at that time over two corners should change drastically in the next few years.

Even as children, the two independently followed the hip-hop scene and fell in love with it. Through various parties, they became even closer friends and met soon every day, since the two lived in the same district (1140).

When they moved into a shared apartment, everything changed within a few years. They decided to record their own songs and to mix up the Austrian / German scene.

Their producer Basic Bitch (Lukas) and Ben (Brooker) have been friends since childhood, which is why a cooperation quickly came about and Brooker & Bozar recorded their first track “Para Brudi“. Since they received a good response and the decision was made to make music, they released 9 more songs within 9 months.

How can you describe our music style?

Basically, we hear hip hop in almost every language. Croatian, German, Mexican, Spanish, Italian, American or French. Therefore we would think that our music has an international influence. We also like to try out completely new things that have never existed before, such as Tech House + Rap.

We also like variety. Different beat variants. Once French, once American, and also tech house beat styles. It makes us more fun to work with.

What differentiates our music from what is currently available in German rap?

Basically we want to arouse positive feelings in people with our music. An unrestricted life in full freedom, wild parties and travel are our main topics.

We are not interested in writing about cocaine trafficking, gun ownership, or other ghetto issues because we are not that. We don’t do azzlack or street rap, but rather the opposite.
We write about Highlife + Good Vibes and record our most eventful moments and experiences on one beat.

We also do everything ourselves. We are independent artists and are not signed on any label. We try to release 1-2 new songs every month and put a lot of time and energy into our music in addition to our normal work.

What is your goal with your music?
Phew, good question. Basically, it is enough for us to realize ourselves and just be able to make our own music. It fills us with joy and gives us great pleasure in taking up our life and other topics and putting them on a beat. We experiment with word jokes, comparisons and word games every day until we think we have something in the box and then we go to the studio.

We do not decide what will happen to our music in the future, but the listeners outside. Of course it would be nice to be able to devote 100% of our everyday life to music, and to increase our output even more, but we love what we do, have a lot to do musically and do not put any pressure on us to achieve any specific goal in a certain time.

For example, next month we would like to release our 1st EP with several songs aimed at a chilled vibe.
An American-inspired EP with a special theme is also planned and we have also planned a few more singles.

What is your latest release?

Our latest release is called “Yin Yang”. In this song we chose a topic on a tech house beat that should describe our musical symbiosis. Bozar, for example, has very different musical strengths than Brooker, and vice versa. Bozar also likes to wear black outfits and Brooker prefers the color white. Basically, we wanted to create something completely new with this track that we have never seen before in the hip-hop scene. Tech-House + Rap / Pop and a few weeks of hard work have led to a result that we are quite happy with.

Dubai: The coronavirus has turned most of our lives upside down. However, for a large section of UAE residents, a part of their lives at least has turned for the better — the daily commute between Dubai and Sharjah. With schools out for the summer and many offices still closed or only partly open, the daily drive between the two emirates has been halved in some cases, down to 30 or 40 minutes. Offices and schools had closed in March due to the coronavirus pandemic, switching to Work From Home (WFH) and distance learning, respectively.

After a staggered start, Dubai government departments reopened with full staff capacity by mid-June, including some private companies. As a result, the morning rush hour from Sharjah to Dubai and the evening rush hour in the reverse direction has significantly shrunk from its earlier hour to two-hour spell. Before the lockdown, it used to take Yunus Shamsher around two hours from his Sharjah home in Al Khan to his Dubai office in Al Quoz, and vice versa. Now, it only takes about an hour. “I’ve definitely experienced less traffic. I think it’s because many offices are still doing WFH. Schools are also off for the summer. A lot of the traffic in the mornings was because of school buses and family cars on the school run,” said Shamsher, 64, a manager in a Dubai company.

Mr Jorge Perez, an enterprise administrator was born in Santo Domingo on 29 January 1984, this man needs no introduction.
With his hardwork and entrepreneurial skills , he is now the CEO of Oasis rent a car. He has show that with sheer determination and hardwork all goals can be achieved. He has left no stone unturned in order to become the owner of Oasis.
With the utmost dedication towards his work , he has become an icon for many youths who aim at becoming an entrepreneur.
Mr Perez has always been keen on learning new skills so to be on the same path as the world is moving forward.

He shows no hesitation what so ever in enduring his passion. He is a role model for many young entrepreneurs so as to how to build an environment and achieve great heights. He has the potential to reach many more milestones.

Madisonne Lang has proven to be a titan in the Canadian beauty industry. Not only is she referred to as a local fashion icon and socialite, she has the brains and work ethic to back it up. In 2017 (age 25) she opened her first boutique hair salon in Calgary, Canada, called Pepper Hair Haus, with a focus on Custom Colouring & Hair Extensions. It’s now been recognized at the “Best Salon” in the city, as per the 2019 Hair and Beauty Awards.

In 2019, she and her fiancé started Pepper Luxury. In one short year, Pepper has grown from just one style of Hair Extension, to four, and is now retailed in hundreds of salons across Canada and the U.S. Pepper isn’t about just hair though, it’s a full on fashion haus! Rely on her for cute custom accessories, lifestyle, fashion, makeup, tutorials, art, and Hair Extension Training + Business Tips with Pepper Academy. Pepper is on the uprise, keep an eye on