SHAABAN 5, 1440 AH WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019 28 Pages Max 28º Min 19º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17803 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Kuwaiti delegation participates in Sudan police orders forces not Pearls of wisdom: Japan’s Pele back in Brazil after 3 Indian university ranking event 6 to intervene against protests 22 cultured farms still glisten 27 hospital stay in France Lawmaker claims ‘importing’ expats hurts jobless Kuwaitis MPs call to cut power to Egyptian consulate By B Izzak Al-Saleh about the number of expats who have Hashem also asked the education minister been appointed in the council of ministers and in about paying a Canadian who was appointed MoE warns schools KUWAIT: MP Safa Al-Hashem said yesterday all sectors from the beginning of 2017 until now. dean of the pharmacy college in 2014 a special that “importing” expatriates and employing Hashem said the answer should include the allowance of KD 1,500 monthly, which she against hiking fees them in administrative jobs in the government is name and nationality of those employed, their claimed was never paid to Kuwaitis. She one of the main causes for the high unemploy- education level, wages and the name of the demanded a copy of his appointment decision By A Saleh playing its role with regards to school ment rate among Kuwaitis. The lawmaker sector where they are employed, demanding and the reasons for paying the special fees, and no school is allowed to claimed that an unwise recruitment policy by the an explanation why those expatriates were allowance. She also claimed the dean’s wife was KUWAIT: Assistant Undersecretary impose its opinion”. Huwaila said the government has led to a “horrifying” imbalance appointed while Kuwaitis were rejected. She also appointed in the college at the same time for Private Education Dr Adbulmohsen ministry revisits the fee increase issue in the demographic structure in favor of expats. also asked for the number of Kuwaitis who without meeting the requirements of the Al-Huwaila yesterday met parents of every now and then, adding “we do not She said this policy has resulted in depriving applied for those jobs, an explanation of the appointment committees in the college. students of a private school in Jahra, see that an increase is necessary”. Kuwaitis of their legitimate right of getting an policy of the council of ministers on replacing Meanwhile, MPs Abdulwahab Al-Babtain who are staging a sit-in against In another educational concern, adequate job. expats with nationals and what measures the and Abdullah Al-Kandari yesterday called for increased fees. “We will not allow any State Minister for Economic Affairs Hashem had in the past few years called for council has taken to implement this policy to cutting the power to the Egyptian consulate in increase in fees in private schools and Maryam Al-Aqeel said that there is no imposing taxes on expat remittances, forcing reduce the percentage of expat employees. Salam in South Surra because the consulate will take all measures that may reach joint cooperation so far between the them to pay higher charges for medical services She asked the minister about the measures it rented a building designated for private resi- revoking their licenses if schools do not manpower authority and education and even asked them to pay for walking on intends to take to reduce the number of dence, which caused great harm to residents. comply with the ministry’s decision,” he ministry to check the degrees of expats roads and breathing Kuwait’s air. The lawmaker expatriate employees having low educational The consulate moved to this location a few said. He said the “education ministry is Continued on Page 24 asked Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas qualifications. weeks ago amid protests from MPs. told parliament on taking up the 90-day News in brief Bouteflika ally interim presidency. “It’s a great responsibility that the Tourist falls, drowns in Nile constitution demands of me,” named Algeria’s the 77-year-old added. KAMPALA: A Saudi tourist drowned after he Opposition parties refused slipped and fell into the River Nile while apparently new president to back the appointment of attempting to take a selfie, police said yesterday. the seasoned establishment The tourist was with a group of friends visiting ALGIERS: Algerian lawmakers appoint- insider and boycotted the Kalagala Falls in central Uganda, a popular spot ed a regime stalwart as the country’s first session, as thousands of stu- whose raging rapids are popular among kayakers, new president in two decades yesterday, dents protested against him Abdelkader Bensalah when the accident happened on Saturday. Uganda dismaying protesters seeking sweeping in Algiers. “They haven’t police spokeswoman Hellen Butoto said his body change after the resignation of veteran heard us, we will continue to march!” was recovered some 10 km away yesterday. — AFP leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The election they shouted, clutching hand-written of upper house speaker Abdelkader placards and Algerian flags. For the first Bensalah as interim president follows time in seven weeks police in the capital Bishop charged with raping nun constitutional rules but goes against the fired tear gas to try to disperse the demands of demonstrators, who are protest by students, who were also hit THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Police yesterday pushing for him and other top politicians with water cannon. “Peaceful, peaceful,” charged an Indian bishop with repeatedly raping a to stand down. “I want to work towards they chanted, raising their arms in the nun at a rural convent in Kerala, in a case that has fulfilling the interests of the people,” air as they were surrounded by police. ALGIERS: Algerian security forces use a water canon to disperse students taking cast a new shadow on the Roman Catholic church’s Bensalah, a trusted ally of Bouteflika, Continued on Page 24 part in an anti-government demonstration yesterday. — AFP global sex abuse crisis. Franco Mulakkal was charged with raping the nun several times between 2014 and 2016. The bishop also faces charges of In a letter released on Monday, key unlawful detention, unnatural sex and abuse of senators told Secretary of State Mike authority. Mulakkal - who faces a maximum punish- Trump praises Pompeo there was strong support for the ment of life imprisonment - has vociferously denied security relationship with Egypt but urged the allegations. — AFP Sisi’s ‘great job’ him to convey their concerns about demo- WASHINGTON: President Donald cratic governance, political freedom, eco- Trump yesterday praised the “great job” nomic reforms and fundamental human Attache on trial for toilet camera he said is being done by Egyptian rights in the country. “A strong and sus- President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi. “I think he tainable US-Egypt strategic partnership is WELLINGTON: One of New Zealand’s most sen- is doing a great job,” Trump said as he sat vital for both countries but it requires ior naval officers has gone on trial for placing a down for talks with Sisi in the White Egypt to make a tangible effort to make secret camera in the unisex toilet of the country’s House. “We have never had a better rela- those reforms,” the letter, signed by the Washington DC embassy. Commodore Alfred tionship between Egypt and United States Republican chairman and the top Keating has been charged with attempting to make than we do right now.” Egypt is one of the Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations “an intimate visual recording” and is currently on biggest US strategic partners - an Arab Committee as well as 15 other senators. trial in Auckland. The camera was purposely mount- country that made peace with top US ally Later this month, Egyptians are expect- ed inside a heating duct unit in the bathroom and Israel 40 years ago and a major recipient ed to take part in a referendum that could was only discovered when the panel fell to the floor. of US aid. see Sisi extend his rule beyond the end of The camera’s media card had traces of Keating’s Trump also told reporters that the two his second term in 2022. Constitutional DNA and his computer contained the camera’s driv- had important things to discuss about mili- amendments would also increase the mili- er and related software. — AFP tary issues and trade. The US government tary’s political role and bring the judiciary and US lawmakers are particularly con- under Sisi’s control. Ahead of Sisi’s meeting cerned about Egypt’s reported signing of a with Trump, Human Rights Watch urged Couple charged with espionage WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump (right) shakes hands during a meeting $2 billion deal with Russia to buy more the US Congress to pressure Sisi, saying with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi in the Oval Office at the White House than 20 Sukhoi SU-35 fighter jets as well the referendum could “institutionalize BERLIN: An Indian couple accused of spying has yesterday. — AFP been charged with espionage, German prosecutors as weapons for the aircraft. authoritarianism”. — Agencies announced yesterday. They named the suspects as 50-year-old Manmohan S and his wife Kanwal Jit K, 51. “Manmohan S agreed by January 2015 to pro- a way to paint a personage of greed, a Ghosn already faces three formal vide information about Germany’s Sikh community Ghosn accuses personage of dictatorship”. “This is charges: two of deferring his salary and and Kashmir movement and their relatives to an about a plot, this is about conspiracy, this concealing that in official shareholders’ employee of the Indian foreign intelligence service is about backstabbing,” he said in the documents, and a further charge of seek- Research & Analysis Wing,” they said.