www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 22 Bank of England QSL: New seasonson ccutsu rates to record to kick off on low over Brexit September 15 FRIDAY 5 AUGUST 2016 • 2 DHUL QA’DA 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6879 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Qatari flag hoisted at Olympic Games Village Emir greets Free Wi-Fi for President of Burkina Faso DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim Labour City bin Hamad Al Thani sent yester- day a cable of congratulations to President of Burkina Faso Roch Marc Christian Kabore on the occasion of his country’s National workers soon Day, reports Qatar News Agency (QNA). who have been spending a sizeable Emir congratulates part of their income for using inter- 3,000 to benefit net on their smart phones,” said the Governor-General from service. source. Most workers have a smart phone and spend an average QR5O of Jamaica per month on internet, he added. By Sanaullah Ataullah The Wi-Fi service available DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim The Peninsula round-the-clock will help the work- bin Hamad Al Thani sent yester- ers keep in touch with their near day a cable of congratulations and dear ones free, besides serv- Athletes and officials of the Qatar Olympic Committee attend the traditional flag-hoisting ceremony to Governor-General of Jamaica ing as a major tool of entertainment, (inset) at the Olympic Games Village in Rio de Janeiro. The Olympic Games begin in the Brazilian Patrick Allen on the occasion of DOHA: About 3,000 workers stay- he added. capital today. → See also pages 2, 23 and 24 his country’s National Day, reports ing at the Labour City near Asian “It will also help us by reducing QNA. Town in Mesaimeer will soon the use of mobile phones at work- get free Wi-Fi service, with the sites,” said the source. sprawling facility fast emerging as The entire complex has 64 resi- a unique model for labour accom- dential buildings, with each building modations in the country. having 130 rooms for workers. Each Pakistan Embassy improves passport services A source at the company that building, of four floors which can employed the workers said yester- accommodate up to 780 workers, day that Wi-Fi network has been also has a large dining area. The Peninsula in the city and facilitate online pay- its capacity for issuance and renewal is processing emergency cases on a installed at several housing units at These buildings are grouped ment, said the ambassador. of MRPs within its means. priority basis. To avail of the emer- the City and the workers will soon into four major sub-complexes, each The International Civil Aviation “We have increased working gency services, applicants will have be able to access it free. with 16 buildings. Besides, there are DOHA: The Pakistan Embassy has Organisation has asked all member hours of staff by four hours until to approach the embassy and present One of the two companies 16 other residential buildings meant announced a series of measures countries to replace manual/ hand- 5pm. We are processing 150 appli- their cases to officials. operating the City is providing the to house executive single workers or to address delays in issuance and written passports with MRPs. An cations for MRPs daily,” he said. The “They can approach me directly service to workers, based on an senior staff members of companies renewal of Machine Readable Pass- original deadline of November 2015 embassy has already issued around through an online appointment. I agreement with their employer. that take premises here on rent. Each ports (MRP) to Pakistani expatriates, has been extended to November this 90,000 MRPs. With growing demand personally handle eight to ten cases Located opposite Karwa head- of these buildings have 97 rooms. the Pakistani ambassador to Qatar year to comply with the rule. for consular services, the sole coun- daily,” he said. quarters close to the Industrial Area, There are a total of 9,872 rooms Shahzad Ahmad said yesterday. “With a growing population of ter of Doha Bank through which fees During the open house, the the City has a capacity of 53,000 in the entire complex that covers an The embassy is all set to launch Pakistanis in Qatar, demand for the are paid is also overworked. ambassador patiently stood for two workers. The facility was officially area of 1.8 million square metres. a token system to organise the long services of MRP has increased from “We had top level discussions hours at a stretch, facing angry Paki- opened in October last year. Work- Most of the buildings in the queues of passport applicants at its around 80 applications to some with the Doha Bank and we hope stanis airing their frustration over ers belonging to several companies City have already been occupied, premises. The embassy auditorium 500 requests a day. We are doing they would be facilitating payment the allegedly poor services of the are staying in this housing complex said the source. A variety of food is would be used as a waiting area for our best to cope with the rush. We at different branches, as well as embassy. Many participants also “Our company had reached an served to the workers who belong visitors seeking passport services. have already placed a request to online and mobile payment,” said raised job-related issues such as agreement with the operators to to different countries. To make it easier for payment of our government to provide more the ambassador. He said to address transfer of sponsorship, salaries and provide Wi-Fi service to our work- The housing complex has fees for various consular services, staff, especially for services related long queues, the embassy will ini- perks. The ambassador assured them ers staying in the City. It has been clinics providing health care at the mission has held discussions to MRP”, the ambassador told The tially introduce a manual token he would take appropriate steps to installed and will be activated affordable cost, ambulance serv- with Doha Bank asking them to open Peninsula on the sidelines of an open system until it gets an automatic one. solve their problems. shortly. The free internet connection ice, mosques, police station, among more counters inside the facility, pro- house held at the embassy yesterday. Although there is a delay in will be a great relief to our workers other facilities. vide payment services in its branches He said the embassy has tripled appointments for MRPs, the embassy → Picture on page 16 Probe to recover Field day for art Turkey issues arrest black boxes from crashed warrant for Gulen Emirates plane AFP military tried to wrest control of the country on July 15, launching Bloomberg attacks on parliament and the pres- ANKARA: Turkey issued an arrest ident’s palace. warrant yesterday for US-based At least 272 people including 34 DUBAI: Authorities began retriev- preacher Fethullah Gulen, accusing coup plotters were killed and nearly ing evidence from the wreckage him of ordering the coup attempt 2,200 injured after people took to of a Boeing Co 777-300 airliner aimed at ousting President Recep the streets and squares against the a day after the Emirates plane Tayyip Erdogan. putschists. crash-landed in Dubai and burst An Istanbul court issued the Since then thousands have been into flames, with a focus on the warrant, the first after the failed purged from their roles in the judi- landing gear that didn’t deploy putsch for the reclusive cleric in ciary, police, military and education before touchdown. Pennsylvania, the Anatolia news system, accused of being members A team of investigators from agency said. of the coup movement while more the United Arab Emirates’ General In the warrant, Gulen stands than 25,000 people have been Civil Aviation Authority is working accused of “ordering the July 15 detained. to recover the plane’s flight-data coup”, Anatolia reported. Western allies including the and cockpit-voice recorders, the Gulen strongly denies any EU have expressed concern over regulator said yesterday in a state- involvement and the movement he the purges, fearing a witch hunt ment. The devices, known as black leads insists it is a charitable net- and the possibility innocent people Sightseers visit an incorporated oversized crop circle in a cornfield, not far from the small community boxes, will be sent to the UAE cap- work promoting tolerant Islam. will be caught up in the government ital of Abu Dhabi for laboratory of Mammendorf near Munich, southern Germany. The crop circle has a diameter of 180 metres. The Turkey previously issued an crackdown. analysis, it said. Representatives owner of the field says he doesn’t know what caused the crop circle. arrest warrant for Gulen in Decem- Turkish media including CNN- from Boeing, engine producer ber 2014 on charges of setting up Turk broadcaster reported that Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc and and directing an “armed terror- Gulen’s nephew, Muhammet Sait Emirates will be advisers in the ist organisation” as well as using Gulen, was also arrested yesterday probe of what the GCAA termed intimidation to deprive a person in Ankara. an “accident.” of their freedom. Ankara has fre- Gulen’s relative was detained on Emirates Flight 521 was arriv- Saudi probe defends air strikes in Yemen quently called on the United States July 23 in Erzurum, eastern Turkey ing at Dubai International Airport to extradite Gulen, sending two sets where his 75-year-old uncle is said early Wednesday afternoon from of documents to Washington since to have developed his deep con- the southwestern Indian city Reuters coalition air strikes on markets, clin- capital Riyadh, found that one of the coup as evidence of his involve- victions, close to his birthplace of of Thiruvananthapuram when ics and a wedding in Yemen, citing eight alleged mass-casualty air ment in the putsch attempt.