KUWAIT: TheMinistry of Education will not sign contracts with expatriate teachers and willcover shortages by hiring Kuwaiti graduates, children of Kuwaiti women andbedoons who have valid security IDs, official sources said. This decision wasmade in an attempt to prevent a problem that happened last year when theministry hired teachers living in Kuwait, but later discovered violations inwork permits given to them before coming to Kuwait.
The educationministry had then to terminate expat teachers' contracts at the instructions ofthe Civil Service Commission and Public Authority for Manpower, the sourcessaid. "One of the terminated contracts belonged to a teacher whose workpermit said that he was brought in by a restaurant to work as a chef," thesources explained.
In other news, MPHamdan Al-Azmi warned Public Works Minister Jenan Boushehri from "anenvironmental catastrophe" in Sabah Al-Ahmad City due to her ministry'salleged inaction. "Sabah Al-Ahmad City is suffering from an environmentalcatastrophe due to negligence and inaction of your ministry," hesaid. "The city's sewer drainagestation has a maximum capacity of 9,000 cubic meters, while the city produces24,000 cubic meters." He said a new station must be installed to deal withcrisis immediately.
By A Saleh
