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Medical Tests for Domestics for Residency SUBSCRIPTION WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 SAFAR 9, 1438 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Candidate Iran signs For first time, Sweet shot: calls for more $4.8 billion CoverGirl ads Curry hits laws that gas deal with feature woman NBA-record ‘respect3 people’ France’s22 Total wearing38 a hijab 1320 3-pointers Medical tests for domestics Min 28º for residency renewal halted Max 10º High Tide 00:07 & 19:29 MoI rejects blame, insists decision made, suspended by MoH Low Tide 12:06 40 PAGES NO: 17045 150 FILS By Hanan Al-Saadoun Court disbars KUWAIT: The health ministry, in coordination with the interior ministry, yesterday suspended a decision to make domestic helpers from 40 countries undergo medical tests every time they Dashti again renew their residencies. Director General for Residency Affairs Maj Gen Talal Maarafi said the decision to test the helpers and Candidates slam Iran the decision to postpone it under further notice is from the min- istry of health, since it is responsible for conducting medical tests, and the interior ministry has nothing to do with it. By B Izzak A senior health ministry official yesterday said the ministry stopped the medical examinations until new health centers KUWAIT: The appeals court yesterday ruled that the open soon. The move will give an opportunity to the ministry registration of former MP Abdulhameed Dashti in to complete installation of state-of-the-art equipment and be the parliamentary election through his son is illegal, logistically ready to receive large numbers of medical exami- depriving the controversial politician from running nees, Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Dr Majda Al- in the Nov 26 polls. The court said the filing of a Qattan said in a statement. Notably, a state of chaos had pre- nomination application for elections cannot be vailed over the past few days at the domestic helpers’ medical done through a power of attorney, overturning a examination department, where hundreds gathered to under- ruling by the lower court last week that allowed go medical tests to renew their residency visas. Maarafi said Dashti to register through his son. the overcrowding was behind the health ministry’s decision to Dashti said on his Twitter account that his lawyer halt the process. will challenge the ruling at the court of cassation Meanwhile, the interior ministry’s relations and security media director Brig Adel Al-Hashash said that in view of the today and will demand that the court, whose rul- suffering caused to citizens due to the overcrowding, the inte- ings are final, to reinstate his registration. Dashti, rior minister conferred with the health minister and his under- who has been living outside Kuwait since March, secretary, asking them to freeze the decision until the health submitted a medical certificate to the lower court ministry makes proper arrangements to put it into practice. stating that he is undergoing medical treatment Hashash added that Maarafi was instructed to immediately and cannot return to the country. form a committee to arrange with the health ministry to make Dashti is fighting another battle after the elec- a plan with proper mechanisms and arrangements to absorb tion authority barred him from participating in the the huge numbers of domestic helpers. Hashash also under- polls. The former lawmaker has been sentenced to a lined that the decision had been made and suspended by the KUWAIT: Attendees sit around a large tray of a traditional dish made of camel meat during an election cam- Continued on Page 13 health ministry and urged everyone to keep the interior min- paign meeting of candidate Al-Humaidi Al-Subaei in Riqqa yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat istry out of it. India scraps 500, 1,000 rupee notes NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister from tomorrow by the Reserve Bank Narendra Modi ordered the withdraw- of India (RBI), the country’s central al of 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from bank. The 500 and 1,000 notes, which circulation yesterday in a shock are worth around $7.50 and $15 announcement designed to tackle respectively, are the largest bills in use widespread corruption and tax eva- in India which is still a massively cash sion. Modi said that while people intensive economy. Since coming to could exchange their old notes for power in 2014, Modi has pledged to new bills at banks or post offices until crack down on so-called black money the end of the year, or deposit them in - vast piles of wealth kept hidden from their accounts, they would no longer the tax authorities - with a series of be legal tender from midnight. new measures, including 10-year jail “To break the grip of corruption and black money, we terms for evaders. The latest announcement comes a little have decided that the 500 and 1,000 rupee currency notes over a month after the government raised nearly $10 bil- presently in use will no longer be legal tender from mid- lion through a tax amnesty for Indians to report unde- night that is 8 November, 2016,” he said in a televised clared income and assets. Finance Secretary Shaktikant address to the nation. “This means that these notes will not Das said the decision was “a very bold and powerful and a be acceptable for transaction from midnight onwards.” very decisive step to fight the menace of black money and After a one-day shutdown of all banks and ATMs, new the use of fake Indian currency notes”. 500 and 2,000 rupee denomination notes would be issued Continued on Page 13 BURKE, Virginia: A woman smiles after voting at a polling place at a high school during the US presi- dential election yesterday. — AFP Future at stake as America votes WASHINGTON: America’s future hung in the balance yes- terday as millions of eager voters cast ballots to elect Democrat Hillary Clinton as their first woman president, or hand power to the billionaire populist Donald Trump. As the world held its collective breath, Americans were called to make a historic choice between two radically different visions for the most powerful nation on Earth. While Clinton has a slim lead in polls, no one was ruling out a vic- tory by her Republican rival Trump - with the winner’s SEE PAGE 10 name not expected to be known before early today. Voting was underway in all 50 states and the capital Washington. In Virginia horse country, balmy south Florida, and busy Manhattan long lines snaked into the streets out- side polling stations. “I’m excited. I can’t believe I finally get to vote,” said Jose Maria Molleda, 63, a new US citizen cast- ing his ballot at a Presbyterian church in Clifton, Virginia, where a crowd of 150 gathered before dawn for the open- ing of polls in the swing state. Continued on Page 13 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2016 LOCAL Kuwait seeks permanent representation at UNSC Kuwait donates $6.4 million to UN NEW YORK: Kuwait has asked for a per- WA), $1 million to the UN’s refugee manent seat for the group at the UN agency (UNHCR), and $1 million to the Security Council in the future reforms of UN Central Emergency Response Fund, the Council. Equitable representation at, (CERF). and expansion of the UNSC membership, The contributions also include are essential pillars of the process to revi- $570,000 which will go to the UN talize the work of the UN as a whole, Development Program (UNDP), $500,000 Kuwait’s Permanent Representative to to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, the UN Mansur Al-Otaibi said on Tuberculosis and Malaria, $ 500,000 to Monday. He was speaking at a UN the UN Commission on Human Rights General Assembly debate on the item of (UNCHR), $354,000 to UN Human KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah the fair representation at the UNSC in the Settlements Program (UN-Habitat), Sabah meets with Yemeni Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdulmalik Al- meets with Governor of the Central Bank of Kuwait (CBK) Dr future UN reforms. $200,000 to the UN Children’s Fund Mekhlafi. — Amiri Diwan photos Mohammad Al-Hashel. The accelerated challenges facing the (UNICEF), $200,000 to the UN international community require acceler- Environment Program (UNEP), $50,000 to ated steps to reform the UNSC and make the UN Entity for Gender Equality and it better able to address these challenges the Empowerment of Women (UN Amir meets Yemeni, in a more credible transparent and Women), $20,000 to the UN Institute for impartial way, Ambassador Otaibi Training and Research (UNITAR), USD stressed. 10,000 to the UN Voluntary Fund for He highlighted the significance of the Victims of Torture, $10,000 to the UN ongoing intergovernmental negotiations housing fund, and $5,000 to the UN Fund at the UNGA in reaching a mutually- for Drug Abuse Control. Saudi ministers acceptable consensus among the UN member states on the UNSC reforms pur- Reforms suant to the UNGA Resolution 62/557. Separately, a Kuwaiti diplomat said Sheikh Sabah receives commemorative coin from governor The resolution, adopted on 15 that achieving any sort of reforms within September 2008 by a UNGA informal the structure of the UNSC will require KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah plenary during the 63rd UNGA session, patience and flexibility without the need Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan commenced the intergovernmental for further complications. In a speech to Palace yesterday First Deputy Prime Minister and negotiations on Security Council reforms.
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