Новости за 17.06.2019

KUWAIT: State Minister for Economic Affairs Mariam Al-Aqeel said 20,000 expat residency permits were cancelled during the past three years due to linking workers’ residency permits, education level and work permits. Aqeel also said the Public Authority for Manpower recovered KD 123,573 for employers who submitted complaints at the domestic help department against domestic help […]

KUWAIT: The Ministry of Education (MOE) refused paying the salaries of bedoon teachers with expired security cards, said informed sources, noting that a number of them filed complaints saying that their salaries have been suspended since Sept 2018. The sources added that MOE refuses to pay the salaries until the teachers furnish valid security cards […]

KUWAIT: Construction and roadside workers continue to be seen around Kuwait during official work ban hours when temperatures can exceed 50 C degrees. A Kuwait Times tour yesterday detected several outdoor workers violating the ban at various sites around Kuwait. The Public Authority for Manpower had issued its annual decision banning laborers from working in […]

KUWAIT: Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Fahd Al-Shula called for finishing preparations and forming committees needed at least one month before receiving new cleaning contracts. Speaking while presiding a meeting of the supreme planning and coordination committee attended by Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi and a number […]

KUWAIT: Head of the National Assembly’s budgets committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad yesterday quoted Oil Minister Khaled Al-Fadhel as saying there are initiatives to resume production in the neutral zone between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait after more than four years of stoppage. Abdulsamad made the remarks following a meeting by the committee attended by the oil […]

KUWAIT: At least 23 cats were killed after a blaze gutted an animal shelter in Abdaly yesterday. Roula Ahmed, team leader of the Protecting Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) shelter, said most of the cats died of suffocation in the fire, which she blamed on an arson attack. “We set all the animals free during the […]

Center to play major role in Kuwait’s medical services’ development KUWAIT: Under the auspices of the Minister of Health Sheikh Dr Basel Humoud Al-Sabah, KIPCO – the Kuwait Projects Company (Holding) – inaugurated the Late Sheikha Salwa Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah Stem Cell and Umbilical Cord Center. The center was built with a donation of KD […]

RABAT: Assistant Secretary-General of the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) said Sunday that Kuwait’s ‘Sirb Al-Hamam’ (flock of doves) is vying against nine Arab movies for the top award of the first Meknes International Arab Film Festival (FIFAM). “The distinguished movie, directed by Ramadan Khosroh and starring, inter alia, Dawood Hussein and […]

KUWAIT: Gold price made its highest revenue since the beginning of the year, hitting $1,358 per ounce in last week’s trading in fear-driven global markets and a weak US Dollar, according to Sabaek Al-Kuwait Company. It added in its report yesterday that the yellow metal is climbing up in the coming period, backed by US […]

KUWAIT: More than 200 people were arrested in a massive security campaign that covered several industrial areas in two governorates yesterday. Capital and Ahmadi Security men cordoned Ahmadi Industrial, Bnaid Al-Qar and Sharq Industrial before inspecting the identities of around 900 people, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Police arrested 232 people including those […]