KUWAIT: A StateAudit Bureau report about Sabah Al-Salem University City (Kuwait University -Al-Shadadiya) tracked some lenience in determining the basic requirements forthe campus colleges, and bad primary assessment that resulted in manymodifications and changes made in the project. The report also stressed that asa result of the delays, college buildings were not launched on time, the freemaintenance period of those buildings expired while citizens lost faith in thegovernment's seriousness in building the new academic city. The reportexplained that the delay also led to increasing the project's budget from KD475 million, when the project was approved in 2004, to KD 1.6 billion in 2010,then KD 2.95 billion in 2018.
Remote areas
Well-informedsources at the Civil Service Commission (CSC) said decision number 18/2012pertaining with incentives for employees working in remote areas added SabahAl-Ahmed City, Subbiya Palace and Shuaiba industrial zone to those areas,noting that the allowance will be KD 90 monthly for employees in ranks 1-4 andKD 75 for those in ranks 5-8.
Landmines
The MunicipalCouncil is scheduled to meet tomorrow to review Public Works Minister HosamAl-Roumi's approval of the previous meeting's minutes and a proposal made bymember Humoud Al-Enezi to discuss the landmines recently exposed by heavy rain.
Charges dropped
The publicprosecutor Dherar Al-Assoussi ordered shelving a state security report madeagainst bedoon (stateless) young man, and which accuses him of threatening tomurder the director of the central apparatus for illegal residents SalehAl-Fadhalah. The prosecutor ordered that all charges against the accusedMohammad Al-Enezi be dropped.
Trademarks'registrations
Minister ofCommerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan issued a ministerial decision onpublishing various trademarks through the International Organizations andForeign Commerce link on the ministry's website. Roudhan's resolution number687/2018 further stipulates publishing trademarks' registration, modification,change, cancellation or renewal at the following link: www.ifta.gov.kw. Thelink is available on the ministry's website, and will be launched on December16.
By A Saleh andMeshaal Al-Enezi