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MP Mohammad Hayef
Hayef slams inhuman treatment of bedouns
MP Mohammad HayefKUWAIT: Islamist opposition MP Mohammad Hayef yesterday demanded that the central agency for stateless people (bedoons) should come under the purview of interior minister in order to hold officials politically accountable for the ill-treatment of bedoons in the country. The lawmaker urged the prime minister and concerned ministers to take necessary measures to grant bedoons their humanitarian and civil rights in order to end...
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
Guterres reiterates strong support of Kuwaiti mediation in Gulf crisis
UN Secretary General Antonio GuterresNEW YORK: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres yesterday reiterated his strong support for the continuing Kuwaiti mediation efforts aimed at ending the crisis in the Arabian Gulf region. Guterres, in a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), praised the efforts exerted by HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on finding a solution to the crisis. The Secretary General called on all parties to...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — KUNA
Amir congratulates Premier on Kuwait bourse’s promotion
Status puts Kuwait on course for growth: Minister Instrumental achievement to gain local investors' trust KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. — KUNAKUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a congratulatory cable to His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah yesterday on...
The Palace of Justice, Kuwait Court
Court looks into fingerprints suspension plea Nov 14
KUWAIT: The administrative court yesterday set a hearing to be held on Nov 14 to review a case filed demanding the suspension of the Civil Service Commission's (CSC) decision number 8/2017 mandating that all government employees use the fingerprint system to check in and out. The case was filed by lawyer Mohammed Al-Ansari, who said that thousands of employees have been going to work daily and that they had never thought their workplaces might be...
Attorney Fajer Ahmed
Annual leave
Attorney Fajer Ahmed Many of you know that changes were made to the Kuwait labor law in July that were greatly for the benefit of the employee. Since then though, the law has led to confusion over calculations of indemnity and annual leave, and since the law has not yet been implemented by the court, this has led to even more confusion. My readers send me questions on a daily basis asking about annual leave - therefore, today I am going to be...
US Embassy
Message for US citizens: Update to Social Security Services
KUWAIT: The US Embassy in Kuwait sent the following routine message to US citizens in Kuwait: “Starting on October 1, 2017, the Consular Section at the US Embassy in Kuwait will cease performing the majority of Social Security-related federal benefits services. The Social Security Administration (SSA) now requires all beneficiaries and most applicants living overseas to contact their specially-designated Federal Benefits Units (FBUs) abroad who...
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Kuwaitization
Media reports about the expatriates' issue will give the reader an impression that we are facing a global war by the government and National Assembly to get rid of expats, because of the grilling some MPs plan to file against social affairs minister Hind Al-Sabeeh about her alleged decisions to appoint expats in sectors belonging to her administration. Yet, no one took an effort to ask about the hundreds of people on the streets, and who...
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Three citizens arrested for fighting at Kuwait airport
KUWAIT: Three citizens were arrested at Kuwait airport for fighting. A video showing the fight went viral on social media, in which the three are seen exchanging blows and kicks in front of others. The three were taken to Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh police station and questioned. Separately, a Syrian man suffered a black eye following a violent fight with his cousin in a Hawally apartment. Police and paramedics rushed to the apartment, and the injured man...
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Man faces charges for harboring missing teenager
KUWAIT: Police patrols spotted a car with a man and a girl in it behind a co-operative society. The man had a clean record, but when asked about the girl, who is under 20, he claimed she was his cousin. But the girl, who was afraid, told them that he compelled her to leave her home and live with him, adding that he prevented her from calling her family. Police arrested the man and referred him to concerned authorities. Meanwhile, the girl will be...
KUWAIT: A picture taken on Sept 29, 2017 shows a man inspecting water-pipes at a shop in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
Gulf states say goodbye to tax-free reputation
UAE doubles tobacco prices, hikes soft drink prices by 50%Future looks daunting for low-income workers KUWAIT: A picture taken on Sept 29, 2017 shows a man inspecting water-pipes at a shop in Kuwait City. - Photo by Yasser Al-ZayyatDUBAI: Hard hit by a drop in oil income, energy-rich Gulf states will next year introduce value-added tax to a region long known for being tax-free. Some have hailed introducing VAT as the start of "exciting, dramatic"...
LOVELOCK, Nevada: OJ Simpson signs documents before leaving Lovelock Correctional Centre early yesterday. - AFP
OJ Simpson freed from jail on parole
LOVELOCK, Nevada: OJ Simpson signs documents before leaving Lovelock Correctional Centre early yesterday. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Disgraced American football star OJ Simpson, whose racially charged 1995 murder trial riveted the nation, was released from jail on parole early yesterday after nine years behind bars for armed robbery. Simpson, 70, left the Lovelock Correctional Center in the western state of Nevada just after midnight local time, prison...
A Saudi woman walks past a car outside a hotel in the Saudi capital Riyadh, on September 28, 2017 - AFP
Saudi university to open driving school for women
RIYADH: A Saudi woman gets out of her car as others wait for their drivers at a hotel in the Saudi capital on Sept 28, 2017. – AFPRIYADH: A university in Saudi Arabia has said it will open a driving school for women, in a first for the ultra-conservative country after a ban on women driving was lifted. "Princess Nourah University is preparing to set up a driving school in cooperation with the relevant authorities," the women's university said...