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Home | 2 Business | 13 Sport | 22 Flower exhibition Qatar stock index England take on opens at farmers’ gains 345.80 points South Africa as KP market in Umm Salal past week predicts close game The Peninsula Newspaper @PeninsulaQatar @peninsula_qatar FRIDAY 25 DECEMBER 2015 • 14 Rabia I 1437 • Volume 20 Number 6655 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir condoles with Saudi King on victims 25 die in Jizan hospital fire; probe to ascertain cause DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh a speedy recovery. the Maternity Department of the Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yes- At least 25 people died and 123 hospital in the south of the king- terday sent a cable to Custodian injured in the blaze, Qatar News dom, the Civil Defence Agency of the Two Holy Mosques King Agency reports. About 21 brigades tweeted. Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and security and service teams Later, in an update, it said the of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, arrived at the scene and the blaze had been extinguished and expressing deep condolences and injured were shifted to hospitals. an investigation was under way. sincere sympathy over the vic- Investigation was under way Twenty-one teams of emer- tims of a fire that broke out at to ascertain the cause of the fire, gency workers assisted in putting Jizan General Hospital. officials added. The Civil Defence out the blaze in Jizan, the capital The Emir prayed to the Directorate tweeted that the fire of the Jizan province, the agency Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani gives the command to Almighty God to bestow his was brought under control. added. The teams evacuated the start early operations at Hamad Port in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet mercy on them, rest them in The blaze broke out in the children and patients from the Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud (right), Minister of Transport H E Jassim Seif Ahmed Al peace and bless the injured with intensive care unit (ICU) and ICU, the health ministry said on Sulaiti and other officials. its Twitter account. Al Riyadh daily quoted a Civil Defence spokesman as saying that the agency was alerted of the fire at 2am (2300 GMT Wednesday). Premier inaugurates Hamad Al Ekhbariya TV interviewed a witness who said the cause of the fire seemed to be electrical, and that it took only three minutes to Port’s early partial operations sweep through the hospital. The 25 dead included one child, DOHA: Prime Minister and project was screened. The Pre- Qatar National Vision 2030. the TV quoted Major General Interior Minister H E Sheikh mier gave the command to start In a statement after the cer- Saad bin Al Ghamdi, Director, Abdullah bin Nasser bin Kha- early partial operations and was emony, he said the existence of Civil Defence in Jizan, as saying. lifa Al Thani yesterday attended briefed on the offloading of the the port adjacent to the economic Ahmed Al Sahli, Director of the inauguration of early partial first commercial cargo ship after zone will help in the export and Health Affairs in the region, told operations at Hamad Port. its arrival. He also toured facili- re-export process, adding that Al Arabiya that many people had The port will handle limited ties and administrative buildings the opening ahead of sched- been able to escape easily because types of ships and cargo as stipu- and was updated on the project’s ule is another achievement by the doors were open and safety lated in the operations decision, progress and work phases that the steering committee of the equipment was in place. Qatar News Agency reports. resulted in the achievement. project. Saudi Civil Defence officials inspect the damage at Jizan General Hospital Another picutre on page 4 At the beginning of the cer- The Premier said the early Continued on page 2 following a pre-dawn fire in the port city of Jizan yesterday. emony, a film documentary on opening of the port will help eco- AGENCIES the development of the port nomic diversification and achieve THE PENINSULA Qatar welcomes UN resolution on New residency law in force from Dec 14, 2016 DOHA: The Law No. 21 of 2015 after his departure. As per the two sides. Both sides are obliged can approach the grievances com- be applicable to contracts signed Libya agreement regulating the entry, exit and res- new law, the worker can return to respect the contract period, mittee to be set up under the law before its implementation. idency of expatriates will come to the country two or three days whether it be two or five years. to look into such complaints. The law also allows expatriate DOHA: Qatar yesterday wel- in force on December 14, 2016, Al after his departure if he gets a An exit permit from the spon- The law has stipulated that workers to change jobs subject to comed the United Nations resolu- Sharq reports. new contract and fulfils entry visa sor will no more be required for in case of an emergency, the conditions. tion regarding the UN-brokered The law was published in the requirements and if there is no an expatriate worker to leave the worker can leave immediately Expatriate workers with fixed Libyan political agreement signed official gazette (Issue No. 29) on court verdict against him. country. He only needs to inform after notifying the employer job contracts can change their in the Moroccan city of Skhirat December 13, said the daily. It is Brig Mohammed Ahmed Al the employer that he will be leav- and by approval of the authori- work and sign new contracts if on December 17. to be implemented one year after Atiq, Assistant Director General, ing, the daily quoted the official ties concerned. The new law has they wish so at the end of the con- In a statement, the Foreign the date of publication in the offi- Department of Boarder Passports as saying. raised the fine on employees for tract period. For this they don’t Ministry said the UN decision is a cial gazette, the daily added. and Expatriates Affairs at the The Ministry of Interior ear- keeping the passports of expatri- need approval from their current clear evidence of the international Issued on October 27, the law Ministry of Interior, told a press lier explained that to leave the ate employees from QR10,000 to employer. However, an approval is society’s keenness on the success has replaced the Kafala (spon- conference at the Ministry of country, an employee needs to QR25,000 for each passport. needed from the Ministry of Inte- of the deal and institutions ema- sorship) system with a contract- Labour yesterday that the Kafala apply its departments concerned With implementation of the rior and the Ministry of Labour nating from it. It said Qatar will based system and cancelled the system will end with implementa- through Metrash 2 and inform his new law, there will be a new con- and Social Affairs. If the job con- spare no effort to do whatever it exit permit system. tion of the new law. employer three days in advance. tract for every employer based on tract is open-ended, a worker can takes to support peace, security It has also removed the two- There will be a job contract The employer has no right to the new system. change job after five years with and stability in Libya. The min- year period required for an expa- to be signed by every expatriate stop the worker from leaving the The contract will be different approval from both ministries. istry expressed Qatar’s aspiration triate worker to return to the worker with his employer which country and in case of any objec- from the one based on the Kafala that the resolution will be the country to take up a new job, will rule the relation between the tion from the employer, both sides system. However, the law will not THE PENINSULA basis of Libya’s unity, safety, secu- rity and stability and called on all political factions to double efforts to implement the deal. Bluebuster tops in Doha QNA Djokovic to arrive Arab foreign ministers slam on Wednesday kidnapping of Qataris in Iraq DOHA: World No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia is expected to arrive in Doha for the season CAIRO: Arab League Foreign Ministers, homeland and families. opener on December 30. in its extraordinary meeting here at the The council hoped that contacts under- The winner of three Grand headquarters of the General Secretariat taken by Qatar with the Iraqi government Slam titles and the season-end- of the League yesterday condemned the would yield positive results to ensure the ing championships in London this kidnapping of Qatari nationals in south- safety of Qatari citizens and end their year will launch the new tennis ern Iraq. detention. season at Khalifa Tennis Com- In a statement issued at the end of the The council called on the Iraqi govern- plex where he is to feature in the meeting, the council noted that it is fol- ment to shoulder its legal responsibilities Qatar ExxonMobil Open. lowing with deep concern the abduction of and take necessary measures to ensure the Experienced Tomas Berdych of Qatari and condemned the shameful act safety of the kidnapped Qatari citizens and the Czech Republic will arrive two which is contrary to Islamic religion pro- ensure their release as soon as possible, days before on Sunday and former visions and divine laws and constitutes a especially as they had entered the Iraqi ter- world No.