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Smes May Be Exempt from State Fees soccer THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT ice hockey Pages 14 & 16 Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com Page 16 THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 2021 / RAJAB 28, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17634 16 PAGES 150 FILS SUPPORT EYED FOR NEEDY FAMILIES DURING CURFEW SMEs may be exempt from state fees Vaccinations total 326,000 KUWAIT CITY, March 10, (Agencies): The Cabinet has assigned government agencies, dium enterprises to alleviate their suffering after the issuance of the aforementioned Cabinet decision, the acting based on their speciality, to take the necessary measures and decisions to postpone the pay- Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers Wael Al-Asousi said the council reviewed the recommendation con- tained in the minutes of a meeting held previously by the Economic Affairs Committee regarding the aforementioned ment of all fees for the services provided by the state to business owners (small and medium petition, and that the council reviewed the demands made by the applicants. enterprises) for a period of three months from the date of issuance of this decision. This is in It is worth explaining that the applicants (small and medium entrepreneurs) demanded reopening of all closed commercial ac- accordance with the texts and procedures in force, after the issuance of the decision to close tivities, tightening of health requirements, and closing of an activity only in case of violation, as well as provision of compensation for fully closed commercial projects by paying salaries registered in the Public Authority for Manpower (PAM) system, paying the some businesses, reports Al-Qabas daily. rents under the lease contracts registered with the PAM or the Public Authority for Civil Information (PACI), and exempting from In a letter addressed to the concerned ministers regarding the petition submitted by the owners of small and me- payment of fees owed to the state. These fees include electricity, water and telephone bills, fees for the “As-hal” portal of PAM, ac- comodation and stamp fees, trade license renewal fees, and Kuwait Municipality fees for billboards, workers’ health cards and so on. Opinion They also demanded postpone- ment of payment of installments of the Industrial Bank of Kuwait and of the National Fund for Small Mallow, watercress Minister personality of ‘Al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah’ and Medium Enterprises Develop- ment for a period of one-two years without the interest being carried over and with continued support By Ahmed Al-Jarallah throughout the curfew period and Editor-in-Chief, the Arab Times for a year after the opening of the activities. ABU Ali Mansour, better known by his regnal name “Al-Hakim Bi- Al-Asousi said the committee Amr Allah” (The Ruler by the Order of God) was the sixth ruler of reviewed the viewpoints of repre- the Fatimid Empire in the 10th century. He was known for his strange sentatives of the Ministry of Elec- decisions, for example, he had prohibited the cultivation of mallow and tricity and Water, the Office of the watercress crops, and ordered the punishment of those who ate them. State Minister for Services Affairs It is said that the reason behind his ban on the cultivation of mallow and the Industrial Bank of Kuwait and watercress plants was that he almost fell after stepping on them on about the extent to which facili- one of the streets of Cairo at that time. In fact, he is known to have is- ties can be provided to owners of sued many contradictory orders, such as he would allow a certain thing small and medium enterprises that to be done, but when someone does it, that person would get punished. have suspended their activities or It seems that our Minister of Health, in fact the entire Cabinet, is are still not working according to following in the footsteps of the ruler “Al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah” with the Cabinet decision to confront contradictory decisions such as the partial curfew, which was imple- the outbreak of the COVID-19 mented in accordance to the minister’s recommendations. pandemic. It seems that the Health Minister is afraid of being infected with CO- VID-19 and has thus quarantined the entire country, as well as threat- Activities ened the violators with imprisonment for Kuwaitis and deportation for A representative of the Ministry non-Kuwaitis. of Electricity and Water stated that In addition to all that, the minister did not leave any means of there are two proposals - exemp- transportation for them to reach their homes in a timely manner. The tion from electricity and water residents have been left displaced on the streets, and terrified of what fees, which requires the issuance would happen to them if they got arrested after 5:00pm. of a law, and postponing payment, This is a very ugly description of the situation on the ground which or allowing payment in install- has no precedent from any other country. Kuwait claims to fight inter- ments, or rescheduling the fees national terrorism, when it, within its borders, terrifies, or rather terror- owed by the owners of these ac- izes, people who are under its care and are seriously working. tivities, for which a directive will Considering this historical transportation crisis that Kuwait suffers be required from the Cabinet, after from and the prevention of expatriates from obtaining driving licenses which a decision regulating this and owning cars, suppose if they delay for an hour or two on the streets matter would have to be issued. as it has been happening daily since the beginning of the partial curfew, Also, a representative of the Of- will you deport tens of thousands of them? fice of the State Minister for Ser- Are the threats made against them by the concerned ministers ac- vices Affairs said a legal opinion is ceptable to reason? Isn’t this discrimination and racism? What should required on the extent of exemption an expatriate worker, who works the whole day and does not find a or deferral of landline usage fees. means of transportation before 5:00 pm, do, O ministers of Health and According to the legal opinion Interior? Should he wear an invisible hat? of the representative of the Indus- We also ask - If you quarantine people in their homes between 5:00 trial Bank of Kuwait, the bank, at pm and 5:00 am, will the spread of COVID-19 virus stop, or does it the beginning of the COVID-19 mean that the virus cannot spread during the day? crisis, had postponed the payment Isn’t there a wise rational person in the Ministry of Health and some of installments for a period of six concerned ministries to guide you to the right path? Or are these just months for owners of small and decisions and fake gains at the expense of the people and the interest medium enterprises, and later ex- of the country, as well as the image of Kuwait in front of the world? tended the postponement for a fur- Why not speed up the vaccination process, diversify vaccines, then ther period of six months, ending leave it to people to choose what they want from them, and distribute in the month of April 2021. them to hospitals and private health centers? Al-Asousi explained that the We will not repeat the talk about the precautionary measures taken committee reviewed the legal by some of our friendly countries, which have reaped great benefits in opinions on the subject. Regarding their economy and for their people despite the higher rate of spread of the fees for services such as elec- COVID-19 virus there than in Kuwait. tricity, water and telephone, the For instance, Saudi Arabia has lifted the curfew and resumed nor- fees are in exchange for a service mal life, and so did the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Britain, the due to which it is not permissible United States, and many other countries. They neither deported nor to exempt them except by law, imprisoned anyone in an impulsive manner, as seen in Kuwait, which considering that the service will is assumed to be the country of humanity and should ideally rise to the be provided free of charge. occasion. These decisions have destroyed the livelihood of the people here. Instruct Businesses have been disrupted, projects have closed, and the number Regarding postponing the pay- of cases in the courts has increased, either related to the rents people ment of installments to the In- were unable to pay, or for defaulting to pay off bank installments. KUNA photo dustrial Bank of Kuwait, small The government did not put in place any real rescue or rather stimu- After the clock ticks 5, streets in Kuwait become deserted with no queues of motorists or pedestrians’ public appearance. projects, and others, it is permis- lus plan. Instead, the government’s procedures have become a source Citizens and residents have been abiding by the Cabinet’s latest decisions to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus sible through a Cabinet decision to of ridicule for the Kuwaitis, and the whole world because of the state (COVID-19).The Government has declared partial lockdown from 5 pm to 5 am effective for a month as part of the efforts instruct the concerned authorities of confusion, improvisation and contradiction that Kuwait has reached. against the virus. to study and take measures, after It is as if the personality of Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah has been reincar- presentation to the boards of direc- nated in the current government. tors, to postpone payment. All this must take into account the fact that Email: [email protected] Other Voices the period of postponement or ex- Follow me on: emption is within the period of the exceptional circumstance.
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