MP Rakan Al-Nisf

KUWAIT: MP Rakan Al-Nisf asked Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to provide him with lists of expatriates who were granted residency visas in the period from 2003 to 2015. The lawmaker also asked for detailed statistics about each of those years.

'Original Kuwaitis'

Following his argument with his colleague Mohammed Tana Al-Enezi, MP Jamal Al-Omar repeated his accusations of Enezi of not being an 'original Kuwaiti,' that he had come from the "north" and does not deserve to represent the people in parliament. His newest remarks came in the form of questions he sent to the interior minister, asking him for lists of Kuwaitis who had been given Article 1 Kuwaiti citizenship although they had not been in Kuwait before 1920 - a prerequisite for the highest classification of the citizenship.

Postal privatization

Minister of Communications and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Essa Al-Kandari said that a law on privatizing postal services would be finalized within a few days and submitted to the Cabinet pending referral to the parliament for voting. "Postal services will accordingly be commercially administered to provide better revenues to state treasury and better services for the public," he explained.

Fishermen's demands

Head of Kuwait Fishermen Union Thaher Al-Sowayyan urged the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fish Resources to look into fishermen's demands, especially since the new fishing season is about to start while those demands had not been met yet. Sowayyan expressed a wish to meet His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah to explain the problems fishermen face and that fish prices would be positively affected if these problems were resolved. He added that unlike other sectors in Kuwait, fishermen received the least amounts of subsidies.

Death sentence

The criminal court yesterday sentenced two suspects to death over charges of drug smuggling and trafficking.

Weapons seized

Weapons detectives seized a number of heavy weaponry and military attire from a Farwaniya stable, said security sources, noting that the weapons included six AK-47s, an RPG, a machinegun, nine shotguns, a large quantity of ammunition and military clothing. The sources added that the stable owner is at large.

Embezzlement

A carwash station's owner reported that one of the station's supervisors had disappeared after embezzling KD 4,485, said security sources. Investigations are ongoing.

Worker dies

A Bangladeshi man working in a Fahaheel restaurant collapsed and died in the restaurant, said security sources, adding that initial reports suggest that the death was of natural causes.

Fight

Three Kuwaiti brothers were arrested for assaulting two other brothers and stabbing one of them during a fight outside a spa in Ahmadi, said security sources.