Rydges hotel and bar will close and the building will be occupied as offices by the Ministry of Interior for about two years until their new building on the Corniche is completed. At that time, the whole Rydges building will be razed to the ground and a new office complex will be built.

I am not sure when Rydges will close but I believe it will be in the next few months.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. Mahatma Gandhi