ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Katara Hohmann Hospitality crashes out buys five hotels in Qatar Business | 21 Sport | 27 Thursday 26 June 2014 • 28 Sha’baan 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6108 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Shaqiri scores hat-trick Workers, guards National service fight at hotel DOHA: A minor scuffle broke out between a group of workers and ‘optional’ for security guards at the Sheraton Hotel renovation site yesterday in which at least one worker was injured. The Ministry of Interior said the worker suffered minor injuries and Qatari women was given treatment at the site. The Ministry said a scuffle broke out between two groups of workers First male batch completes training and when guards tried to intervene, a fight ensued. The security guards DOHA: Qatar is mulling mak- training courses. were Nigerians while the work- ing it optional for its women to Meanwhile, one of the partici- ers were from Nepal and Pakistan. attend a national service pro- pants, Abdullah Salem Al Sulaiteen They were employees of UrbaCon gramme, which is mandatory told QNA that the training was a Contracting and Trading, the main for men. wonderful experience for him as consultant on the project, and a For women volunteers, special he had not only learnt handling UAE-based subcontracting company. training programmes will be put weapons but also a great deal of The scuffle took place around in place after careful studies. self-control and discipline. noon. Workers were seen shouting The national service spanning “Tens of thousands of Qatari and hitting. The police reached the a few months of camp stay for youth are eager to attend the spot and brought the situation under young men, includes training in National Service,” he said. control. Investigators from public the use of weapons, self-defence Several others expressed similar security agencies launched a probe to and discipline. sentiments. “It is a new life for me,” find out what exactly had happened. The first batch of university was how another Qatari youth, Videos of the scuffle posted on graduates successfully completed Naif Zameel Sayyaf, commented. a website meanwhile showed some their training yesterday in Al Yet another participant, Awadh workers going on a rampage and Shamal. It was for three-months. Al Ahbabi, said that in the past attacking portacabin offices at the A permanent training centre three months, at the National project site. QNA Switzerland’s Xherdan Shaqiri (23) scores a goal during their 2014 World Cup Group E soccer match against for the National Service is being Service Camp in Al Shamal, he had Honduras at the Amazonia Arena in Manaus, yesterday. Switzerland won 3-0, with Shaqiri’s hat-trick. built, but until the time it is ready, picked up several key skills. the training will continue to be “The training is going to help us provided in Al Shamal. Some in leadership skills and defence,” 2,000 young Qatari men comprised he said. Faisal Mohamed said that the first-ever batch. The second as part of first batch of National Law soon to punish black marketeers of subsidised food batch, consisting of university and Service cadets, he and the others high school students, will begin its came mentally and physically pre- DOHA: The government is like rice and edible oil, among The Director of Ration The daily, meanwhile, said training as part of the National pared for the training. “We have planning a law to criminalise other things, at very low prices. Department at the Ministry of quoting sources at the Consumer Service after Ramadan. learnt to be self-reliant in these the sale on the black market of Most of these items are said Economy and Commerce, Khalid Protection Department of the This was disclosed by the three months of training,” was how subsidised food items meant for to land at middle and lower-end Al Nuaimi, said yesterday that economy ministry, that the Minister of State for Defence still another participant, Abdul Qataris. eateries through a black market action is to be taken against both, Department is about to launch Major-General H E Hamad bin Ghani Ali Mohamed commented. Once the legislation is invoked, that some people say continues the families that allow others to an awareness campaign targeting Ali Al Attiyah, at a ceremony held “The training has taught us to be people involved in the alleged to thrive. access the subsidised food items Qatari families urging them not to to mark the completion of the first accountable and responsible”. abuse of the system, including the Many Qatari families being and those who sell them on the indulge in wasteful expenditure. batch of National Service cadets. Fahad Al Marri was equally citizens who allow the misuse of rich, allow their household work- black market. Qatari families indulge in reck- Al Attiyah told Qatar News excited and said that it was a the privilege, may all be punished. ers to take benefit of the privilege “There is a law that is about less spending during the month of Agency in reply to a question that unique experience for him to be Under Tamween (Arabic word and that’s how much of the sub- to be implemented to criminal- Ramadan and buy food items in the participants of the National at the camp with so many differ- meaning ‘supply’), Qatari fami- sidised food stocks are passed on ise the misuse of the system of bulk that go waste at the end of Service Programme would be ent fellow Qatari youth for three lies are entitled to buy from des- to the eateries that usually pay a Tamween,” Al Nuaimi told Al the month. recalled once a year for refresher months. THE PENINSULA ignated outlets quality food items pittance for these items. Sharq. THE PENINSULA Ramadan hours Iran is sending drones, for Passport, Traffic depts weapons to Iraq: Report DOHA: The Ministry of Interior has announced the WASHINGTON: Iran is help mobilize Shia militias in the changed working hours at some secretly flying surveillance south of the country, the paper of its major departments during drones over Iraq and sending said, adding that Iran’s General Ramadan. military equipment there to Qassem Suleimani recently The Public Administration help Baghdad in its fight against made two trips to Iraq. Iran is of Borders Passports and Sunni insurgents, The New York also sending two flights daily to Expatriates Affairs and the Times reported yesterday. Baghdad with 70 tons each of Department of Citizenship and A “small fleet” of Ababil drones military equipment and supplies. Travel Documents will work in was deployed to the Al Rashid air- “It’s a substantial amount” of two shifts from 8am until 1pm field near Baghdad, the newspaper material, a US official told the and from 9pm until 1am. said on its website, citing anony- newspaper. “It’s not necessarily The Traffic Department will mous US officials. Tehran has also heavy weaponry, but it’s not just also work in two shifts from 9am installed an intelligence unit at light arms and ammunition.” to 2pm and from 9pm to 1am. the airfield to intercept electronic Meanwhile, the Iraqi prime The Criminal Evidences and communications between ISIS minister has rejected the crea- Information Department head- fighters and commanders. tion of a government of “national quarters will work from 8am to Ababil drones, less sophisti- salvation” despite pleas from the 1pm. The fingerprinting section cated than US unmanned air- US and Britain to form a more at Industrial Area (for compa- craft, are designed in Iran and inclusive administration to fight nies) will work in three shifts have a nearly 10-foot (three- a growing insurgency of jihad- from 8am to 1pm, from 1pm to meter) wingspan. They are used ists and disaffected Sunnis. “The 6 pm, and from 8pm to 1am. The for surveillance and are unarmed. call to form a national emergency fingerprinting section at external About a dozen officers of government is a coup against the services centers will work in two Iran’s paramilitary Quds Force, constitution and the political shifts from 8am to 1pm and from A Jordanian military helicopter flies over an armoured vehicle near the Karameh border crossing on the Jordanian- have also been sent to Iraq to process,” Nouri Al Maliki said. 9pm to 1am. THE PENINSULA Iraqi border near Ruweished city, yesterday. advise Iraqi commanders and AGENCIES Qatar plans to turn bullring into Europe’s mega mosque Today’s LONDON: The site of a former Islamic Federation of Catalonia, plans have been batted around a renovation that will take five history. The mosque could become bullfighting ring in Barcelona said Qatar’s Emir, H H Sheikh for the imposing century-old years and employ an estimated a “high-level tourist attraction”, matches could one day house the largest Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, had neo-mudejar building, including 4,000 people. The mosque would said Kanfach, with regular exhibi- GROUP G: mosque in Europe, members of expressed interest in buying La a street market, luxury flats and have a capacity of up to 40,000 tions open to the public, as well as PORTUGAL VS GHANA (7PM) Barcelona’s Muslim community Plaza Monumental, a former bull- a green space. worshippers under its 300-metre restaurants and shops. “Residents USA VS GERMANY (7PM) have said after announcing they fighting ring that has sat largely Kanfach told the Spanish daily minaret. of Barcelona should be proud that have found a backer willing to unused since hosting Catalonia’s 20 Minutos that a purpose-built The space would also house a Muslims want to transform the GROUP H: cover the ¤2.2bn cost of the last bullfight in 2011.