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Fuel prices' liberalization remedy for budget deficit - KD 16 billion subsidies for next three years
KUWAIT: Local scene has been abuzz with much talk about forecast liberalization of prices of diverse types of fuel, particularly the benzene, amid predictions rates of the latter type may range between 100-115 fils per liter in the foreseeable future.The sector's stakeholders now view as a necessity liberalization of the fuel prices, considering the oil prices slump, where the barrel of crude has shed more than 70 percent of its value since June...
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MoI promotes cybercrime law
Brigadier Adel Al-HashashKUWAIT: The Ministry of Interior (MoI) is set to launch a wide-scale media campaign on January 12th to promote the cybercrime law, a senior security official said yesterday. The MoI's media campaign is mainly intended to make the largest number of society categories familiar with the contents of the law, General Director of the MoI's Public Relations and Security Media Department Brigadier Adel Al-Hashash said in a press...
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MP slams labor unions' bill
MP Saleh AshourKUWAIT: MP Saleh Ashour criticized the government over a new bill to organize labor unions' work in Kuwait. The lawmaker charged that article 12 of the new law, which states that the regulations are compulsory, is considered a blatant intervention in unionist work and a shift in the government's role which providing guidance according to the constitution. "Article 177 of Kuwait's constitution states that applying its articles must...
KUWAIT: This file photo shows the Jaber Hospital under construction.
KD 1.33 million to build, expand hospitals: Ministry - Medical experts to visit Kuwait
An aerial view of Jaber Hospital, which is slated to be opened sometime during the first quarter of 2016.KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health (MoH) set KD 1.33 million for a total of seven projects for expansion and establishment of hospitals in the country's governorates. The Ministry is following up on a strategy to cope with the structural plan of the country till 2010, allocating a total of 4,342 beds to all existing and new hospitals, Head of the...
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Expat teachers to be cut by 25%
KUWAIT: The Education Ministry plans to reduce the number of expatriate teachers of both genders in certain specialties by up to 25 percent, starting from the next school year.General Education Undersecretary at the Education Ministry Fatima Al-Kandari said the ministry is keen and serious over the replacement process, especially for expats, who will be reduced by 20 to 25 percent in specialties that already have qualified citizens, Gulf...
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah waves to the crowd at the official opening of the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium. — KUNA
Major local events in 2015 - Part II
KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah waves to the crowd at the official opening of the Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium. — KUNAKUWAIT: The following is part two of a list of major local events that happened in 2015, courtesy of Kuwait News Agency (KUNA):Defense and security:March 19: Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Khaled Al-Sabah issued a ministerial decision on the...
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Municipality seizes 650 kg expired truffle
KUWAIT: Kuwait Municipality launched inspection campaigns yesterday to ensure validity of foodstuff, with field inspection teams seizing 650 kilograms of expired truffles. The food and markets control department carried out a field tour that targeted the seasonal truffle market, resulting in the seizure and confiscation of 650 kilograms of rotten truffles, that were also destroyed, Director of Al-Asimah Municipality Saud Al-Enezi said in...
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Bedoon Driver arrested with drugs
KUWAIT: Major General Fahd Al-Shuwaye sent a bedoon man to the Drugs Control General Department after he was arrested while obstructing traffic on Taawon road. Officers found him in an abnormal condition with possession of hashish and drugs paraphernalia.Generator theftA citizen accused a person of stealing a power generator in a complaint he filed at Jahra police station. Investigations are ongoing.Two hurt in fightA bloody fight took place in...
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Israel cracks down on Islamic State recruits
JERUSALEM: Ayoob Kara, a deputy Israeli cabinet minister, used to double as an unofficial intermediary with the few of his fellow Arab citizens who have left to join Islamic State insurgents in Syria or Iraq. Negotiating discreetly through relatives and go-betweens, he would offer them reduced jail terms if they returned to Israel, cooperated with security services and helped deter other would-be Islamic State recruits by publicly disavowing the...
This photo provided by Thames Valley Police shows Mohammed Rehman and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan. —AP
Life sentences given to UK attack plot couple
This photo provided by Thames Valley Police shows Mohammed Rehman and his wife Sana Ahmed Khan. —APLONDON: A husband and wife convicted of planning a major attack to mark the 10th anniversary of the London suicide bombings were both sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Mohammed Rehman, 25, who used the Twitter name "Silent Bomber" and asked users whether he should bomb a shopping centre or the London Underground train network, will serve a...
The setting sun sets wispy clouds aglow above the skyline of the Dubai Marina in Dubai yesterday. —AP
End of era for lavish handouts
The setting sun sets wispy clouds aglow above the skyline of the Dubai Marina in Dubai yesterday. —APDUBAI: An austere state budget released by Saudi Arabia this week is likely to mark the end of an era for the Gulf's lavish cradle-to-grave welfare systems, encouraging governments around the region to roll back costly handouts to their populations. Struggling to narrow a huge budget deficit created by low oil prices, Riyadh on Monday announced...
EAST GREENBUSH: A vehicle is pulled from the median on Interstate 90. — AP
US northeast hit by deadly winter storm - Snow, sleet and freezing rain greasing roads
EAST GREENBUSH: A vehicle is pulled from the median on Interstate 90. — APPORTLAND: Winter weather that spun off a series of deadly storms in the Midwest brought the season's first big punch to the Northeast on Tuesday, with snow, sleet and freezing rain greasing roads, sending drivers spinning and keeping people indoors amid sub-freezing temperatures. Parts of northern New England had already about 6 inches of snow by early evening, and...
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LOS ANGELES: Smoke and flames from the Palisades Fire burn behind Mulholland drive towards the Encino neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, January 10, 2025. -- AFP
Big Los Angeles wildfire switches direction; toll 13
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KUWAIT: People wander around Souq Al-Mubarakiya during Kuwait's national celebrations in this 2023 file photo. — KUNA
New Mubarakiya markets coming to Ahmadi and Jahra
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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti officials meet with a delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss turning Shaab into a United Nations healthy city. — KUNA
Shaab on path to becoming Kuwait’s next healthy city
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KUWAIT: Oil Minister Tariq Al-Roumi with the officials of the Ministry of Oil on Sunday. -- KUNA
Al-Roumi urges Kuwait oil sector to focus on innovation, efficiency
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BELGRADE: This photograph shows a sign for Naftna Industrija Srbije AD (NIS), and the company's owner OAO Gazprom Neft outside the headquarters in Belgrade, on January 8, 2025. -- AFP
US and Britain announce sweeping sanctions against Russia’s oil sector