Новости за 18.04.2019

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Fifth in Arab world; first in Gulf region KUWAIT: Kuwait ranked 108th out of 180 countries in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index released yesterday by Reporters Without Borders, which indicates that the Middle East and North Africa region continues to be the most difficult and dangerous for journalists. Finishing with a global score of […]

Block 5 in Farwaniya has several large residential buildings and businesses like baqalas, restaurants, pharmacies and auto garages, but unfortunately no streetlights. The streets are barely lit by adjoining establishments and buildings, and are full of cars parked all over. Adding to the grim situation of the area are huge containers and trucks parked in […]

KUWAIT: Head of Kuwait Medical Association Dr Ahmad Thuwaini Al-Enezi warned against the migration of Kuwaiti and expat doctors from public hospitals to the private sector inside Kuwait, or to other countries due to what he described as the “shaky confidence in the health system,” as well as obstacles facing medical staff in Kuwait. “It […]

KUWAIT: The appeals court sentenced a police colonel to 15 years in jail for his involvement in the embezzlement of funds from the interior ministry’s co-operative society. The court also sentenced six expatriate employees in the same case to jail terms ranging between seven and 10 years, and fined them KD 1.68 million in total. […]

KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man in his 60s threw himself from a sixth floor apartment in an apparent suicide. Police found a suicide note in the man’s apartment in which he said that he was “depressed for years,” and that he was having difficulties running his businesses due to alleged “demands for bribes” from government employees. […]

Disgruntled lawmakers threaten to grill premier, other ministers KUWAIT: In a surprising move, Islamist opposition MPs Mohammad Hayef and Mohammad Al- Mutair yesterday filed to grill Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh over alleged financial and administrative violations amid a flurry of warnings to grill the prime minister and other ministers by disgruntled […]

Much has been said in recent years about the imbalance of locals vs expats in the demographics of Kuwait. Kuwaitization has aimed to rectify this imbalance by encouraging more locals to take up work typically performed by expatriates. When it comes to the actual work done, we contend that it is the skill, dedication, training […]

Reports of mass resignations by expatriates in Kuwait, especially teachers, doctors and engineers, sparked a debate over the reasons for their sudden decision to leave. I believe these jobs are important because of the shortage of workers in such fields negatively affects and delays work. For example, one daily said the education ministry recently received […]

According to a report this week, nearly a fifth of all students in Kuwait have experimented with drugs. The Director of Drugs Control General Department Brig Bader Al-Ghadouri said in a statement that 18.6 percent of the 22,434 public and private school students surveyed recently have abused drugs. Meanwhile, drugs-related deaths increased to 116 in […]