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Expats cannot join cooperatives’ funds
KUWAIT: There is no plan to allow expatriates to join cooperative societies’ shareholding funds, a senior official of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Work said yesterday.Dismissing relevant reports, the Ministry’s Undersecretary Matar Al-Muteiri said in a press release: “Such media reports are inaccurate and there is not any move by the ministry in this regard.” He added that cooperative societies dot not need to take such a step,...
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Municipality might lay off 60% of expat employees
KUWAIT: The Municipality’s financial and administrative sector is currently preparing to review various expats’ contracts, positions and qualifications with the aim of reviewing their salaries to decrease some of them after amending their job descriptions and titles, increase it for others and lay off those who do not show up to work regularly, those who fail to do their job duties or those holding fake degrees.Informed sources at the...
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Food from Iraq could carry cholera: Ministry official
KUWAIT: Health Ministry Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Affairs Dr Majeda Al-Qattan said that the ministry has been taking all needed precautions against cholera. Speaking on the sidelines of the international conference on developments in breast, liver and pancreas cancer yesterday, Qattan said that the contagious diseases prevention committee at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) met last month and recommended the continuation of...
Alanoud Al-Sharekh
‘Abolish Article 153’
Alanoud Al-Sharekh There has been increased interest in the importance of empowering women in Kuwait. This has included designating a national day to celebrate the achievements of Kuwaiti women (May 16), and greater visibility for programs concerned with ensuring that women are better represented in the labor market, with the long-awaited SME Fund also focusing on aspects of female entrepreneurship. While this momentum is both welcome and...
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108 violence against children cases in 2015
KUWAIT: Chairperson of the Pediatrics Department Council Dr Muna Al-Khawari said 108 cases of violence against children were registered in 2015, which is a 60 percent increase from previous years. She said that the number of cases registered form 2010 to 2015 were 299, 154 of which were of physical abuse, 111 negligence and 25 cases of sexual abuse.Meanwhile, Assistant Undersecretary for Legal Affairs at the Health Ministry Dr Mahmoud...
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Yemeni found with fake citizenship
KUWAIT: Following up citizenship forgery cases, citizenship and passport detectives recently found that a Yemeni man received Kuwaiti citizenship by having his name added to a Kuwaiti citizen’s file, and accordingly had been enjoying many privileges like getting a job in an oil company, receiving a handsome salary, getting a government-provided house and opening up his house for his Yemeni mother and two brothers, before he ended up in the...
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Cafe waiters fight; Car stolen by fake detectives
KUWAIT:Two staff in a Jahra cafe exchanged blows following a short argument over the work. A security source said a customer went to the café and asked for some drinks, then when his order was delayed he became angry and started shouting at the staff. This led to one of the Egyptian waiters to accuse his colleague of failing to do his job properly. Then the argument evolved into a fist fight. When their colleagues failed to control the two men,...
The Palace of Justice, Kuwait Court
Abdali cell case adjourned to April 20
KUWAIT: The court of appeals adjourned yesterday the terrorist cell case number 302/2016, in which 26 defendants are involved, to April 20 for further questioning of the accused. The court asked the Public Prosecution to address some government bodies to send reports concerning some defendants involved in the case.The court yesterday heard from the defense, before postponing the session to April 20. Last January 12, the criminal court sentenced...
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Reckless drivers, lawbreakers arrested in Ahmadi crackdown
KUWAIT: The Ahmadi security department carried out a security campaign in Fintas, Jaber Al-Ali, Sabahiya, Mahboula, Dhahr, Riqqa, Egaila, Abu Halifa, Mahboula, Mangaf, Kabd and Khairan to stop reckless drivers and violators of the law.The campaign, led by Acting Director of Ahmadi Security Brig Abdullah Saffah Al-Mulla, resulted in the arrest of 78 persons, 14 of whom were reported absconding, 21 wanted for civil cases and three over suspicion of...
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Missing Ugandan maid fuels fears of abuse in Saudi Arabia
KAMPALA: Jannat Mubiru has heard nothing from her daughter since the 27-year-old called to say she had arrived safely in Riyadh, where she was due to start work as a maid five months ago. Mubiru has repeatedly phoned the Saudi number her daughter, Shamim Nakitende, used but her calls went unanswered at first, and then were blocked. "There are so many stories of Ugandans being mistreated in Saudi Arabia. I am so worried," Mubiru told the Thomson...
MAAMELTEINE, LEBANON: This picture taken on Thursday shows a whip that remains on the table of the guard’s room of the Chez Maurice Hotel. — AP
Lebanon shocked over sex trafficking of Syrian women
MAAMELTEINE, LEBANON: This picture taken on Thursday shows a whip that remains on the table of the guard’s room of the Chez Maurice Hotel. — APBEIRUT: Back in Syria, the young women were told they would get well-paid jobs at restaurants and hotels in Lebanon. But when they arrived, their belongings and mobile phones were taken away, and the women were locked up in two hotels north of Beirut and forced into prostitution.What followed was an...
NEW ORLEANS: Tony Kirsch, right, an auto body technician, works with Montrel Stiebling, a former inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, and graduate of their work release training program, in the body shop of Toyota. — AP
Murderers are mentors in prison once notorious for violence - 'This place is completely, 180 degrees opposite from what I expected'
NEW ORLEANS: Tony Kirsch, right, an auto body technician, works with Montrel Stiebling, a former inmate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, and graduate of their work release training program, in the body shop of Toyota. — APANGOLA, LA: A maximum-security prison in Louisiana once notorious for its violence is experimenting with a novel way to keep criminals out of trouble: Murderers and other "lifers" are now mentors, teaching job...
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