Новости за 06.02.2019

Merger of manpower bodies to proceed – Registration for by-elections opens KUWAIT: For the second week running, opposition lawmakers yesterday walked out in protest against a decision to declare a grilling filed against the prime minister as not in line with the constitution. Six MPs left the session as the Assembly began voting on a […]

KUWAIT: A senior official at the health ministry affirmed yesterday that a new clinic for AIDS gives results with 99.9 percent accuracy. In a statement, Assistant Undersecretary Dr Majeda Al-Qattan said the clinic is finally ready to operate after a long period of experiments and coordination. “This clinic is located at the Communicable Diseases Hospital […]

KUWAIT: Well-informed ministerial sources said as part of measures to be taken to shrink the state’s organizational structure, resolve deficit problems and reduce expenditure at a number of government bodies, the government is getting closer to announcing privatizing some ministries and government bodies. The sources said the ministerial economic committee has agreed to privatize the […]

KUWAIT: Female cleaners at Jahra schools yesterday went on strike after a one-week grace they had given to get two months of delayed salaries expired without any payment. Commenting on the strike, director of a girls school said that the cleaners had been planning the strike for days and that the school administration had tried […]

Public institutions’ negligence endangers people’s lives KUWAIT: The negligence of some public institutions is endangering people’s lives. A resident of block 4 in Fintas has complained about wooden poles repeatedly falling on the street, a building and even on his vehicle. Abdullah Al-Tayeb told Kuwait Times he has lost hope in receiving help from the […]

KUWAIT: A three-storey building and a basement in Andalus caught fire, prompting Ardiya and Sulaibikhat fire stations to respond. The fire was on the first floor with three persons trapped on the second floor (a woman and two girls, in good condition). A fireman suffered from smoke inhalation and lost consciousness, and was taken to […]

Illegal migration remains one of the most important global challenges KUWAIT: Kuwait has affirmed that transnational organized crime continues to pose a threat to international peace and security and is closely related to the phenomenon of terrorism, which requires greater coordination of efforts, especially with countries suffering from these phenomena. Kuwait’s permanent representative to the […]

Houti laments lack of ‘perfect text’ to adopt women’s issues CAIRO: Kuwait’s female writer Nermeen Al-Houti on Tuesday underlined the necessity of paying much attention to women’s issues at Kuwait’s theater. Speaking during a seminar at Cairo International Book Fair, Houti stressed that theater has always been the reflection of any society. She demanded giving […]

MEDAN, Indonesia: Almost 200 men identified by police as Bangladeshi have been found crammed into a shophouse in Indonesia, authorities said yesterday. Police in the city of Medan on Sumatra island were tipped off to the group by suspicious residents who lived nearby. When police raided the shophouse on Tuesday they found some 192 men, […]

TUNIS: A Tunisian mother has been given a suspended jail sentence for hurling racist insults at a teacher who threw her daughter out of class. Campaigners hailed Monday’s judgment by the court in Tunisia’s second city Sfax as the first under a new anti-racism law approved by parliament last October. The woman, who had spent […]