ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Monday 12 May 2014 13 Rajab 1435 - Volume 19 Number 6063 Price: QR2 QE investors Manchester richer by City bag QR95.8bn in 2013 EPL title Business | 17 Sport | 28 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir meets Indian envoy 14th Doha SEC plan to hire Forum to foreign teachers open today DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will patronise the opening ceremony of the 14th Doha Forum and draws criticism Enriching The Middle East’s Economic Future Conference this evening at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Enough local talent: Qatari teachers Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al DOHA: A number of Qatari to encourage Qataris to enter the Attiyah, will deliver the welcome teachers and Independent teaching profession,” she said. speech at the opening ceremony. School operators are against the “It’s okay as long as a foreign The Forum will offer an over- Supreme Education Council’s teacher is being hired because he view of key issues on democracy, plans to recruit teachers from or she is an excellent professional,” development and free trade in the abroad, as they claim there is Al Hajri added. Teachers coming Middle-East, the Arab countries enough local talent. in from a foreign country take and the world. Many feel that since there is a time to understand Qatar’s edu- Enriching the Middle East’s huge difference between the pay cation system and its society and Economic Future Conference will packages for Qatari and non- culture and adjust, say the critics. discuss the themes of building job- Qatari teachers, the SEC’s idea There are enough retired creating economies in the Gulf, is to economise by bringing over Qatari teachers and those who a new pattern of economics and more foreign hands. left the teaching profession some- development in the region and The starting monthly pay for a time ago when pay packages were across the globe, and the Middle Qatari Independent School teacher low, said Al Hajri. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday met Indian Ambassador to Qatar Sanjiv Arora East’s pivot to Asia. QNA is QR31,340 (for married individ- “Why go to another country who handed him a written message from Indian President Pranab Mukherjee inviting the Emir to visit India. See also page 4 uals) and QR27,440 (for singles). to get teachers when we already The pay increases with seniority. have a trove of teaching talent Contrast this with the pay scale locally,” asks Noor Al Suwaidi. of non-Qatari teachers: QR7,500 “Take in expatriates. They know to QR12,500. According to a school our culture and are familiar with operator, Aisha Shahbeek, even our education system.” Saudi warns of MERS risk from camels a fresh graduate Qatari teacher To recall, the SEC has gets paid as much as a well-expe- announced it is hiring teachers for KUWAIT: Saudi Arabia coronavirus like SARS, which place in Saudi society — is the cooked camel meat and to boil rienced doctor or engineer. Independent Schools for the next said people handling camels originated in animals and killed subject of extensive study among camel milk before consuming it. Critics of the SEC’s plans to academic year from several Arab should wear masks and gloves around 800 people worldwide scientists abroad. But it has been The statement urged people hire teachers from abroad for the countries to fill up 900 vacancies. to prevent spreading Middle after first appearing in China in relatively absent from much of to report symptoms of MERS in next academic year say there are Shahbeek said the problem is that East Respiratory Syndrome 2002. There is no vaccine or anti- the official domestic debate. camels immediately. enough experienced Qatari and most educated Qataris preferred (MERS), issuing such a warn- viral treatment against it. In a statement, the Agriculture Only one of dozens of people expatriate school teachers in the to take up administrative jobs ing for the first time as cases More than a quarter of the 480 Ministry advised people not to working near an auction pen in country who should instead be since teaching entails long work- of the potentially fatal virus diagnosed with MERS in Saudi come into contact with camels Riyadh’s camel market on Sunday taken on board. Noora Al Hajri, ing hours. neared 500 in the kingdom. Arabia, still the focal point of the unless necessary and to wash was wearing a mask, and there who operates an Independent Not many Qataris want to Health experts say camels are outbreak, have died, while cases hands before and after if they did, were no signs of any official visit Elementary School for Girls, work as teachers due to work the most likely animal source of have been reported in other as well as wearing face masks, state from the authorities, a Reuters told local Arabic daily Al Raya in load and the Independent Schools infection for the disease, which Middle Eastern countries, in news agency SPA said on Sunday. photographer said. Public disquiet remarks published yesterday that that have Qatari teachers are the Saudi Health Ministry said Europe and in the United States, “It is advisable to wear protec- in Saudi Arabia has grown amid it is wrong if the SEC is hiring trying their best to retain them late on Saturday that seven more which had its first confirmed case tive gloves, especially when deal- rumours on social media sites teachers from abroad just because by providing incentives, said a people had caught. last month. ing with births or sick or dead about a lack of transparency from they would be paid less. school operator not wanting to First reported two years ago The link between human cases (camels),” it said, according to officials about the spread of the “This is against the state’s policy be named. THE PENINSULA in Saudi Arabia, MERS is a and camels — which have a special SPA. It also advised only eating disease. REUTERS Qaradawi urges Qatar Chamber election today Fish prices soar on costlier diesel DOHA: Election to the Board tered members. Interestingly, Egyptians to of Directors of Qatar Chamber, election is to be held to pick DOHA: Fish is becoming Despite spending more by way Inspectors from the Consumer representative body of the pri- only the lone member of the expensive thanks to a sudden of increased diesel rates, fisher- Protection Department (CPD) boycott election vate sector, is to be held today. services committee. Members hike in the prices of diesel. men say their profits have been of the Ministry of Economy and The election is held every four of the other committees are Fishing boats that spent diesel dwindling. Commerce are present at the auc- DOHA: Influential Egypt-born years. However, if the quo- already decided. The sit- worth a thousand riyals during a “Retailers are having a gala tion and they dictate the prices cleric Yousuf Al Qaradawi, who is rum (50pc) of the Chamber’s ting member of the services four-day fishing expedition in the time at our expense,” fishermen that are quoted. based in Qatar, yesterday urged annual general meeting is not committee, Abdul Lateef Al high seas earlier must now fish were quoted as saying by a local “The prices are quoted at the Egyptians to boycott the upcom- complete, the meeting (to hold Missned, is being challenged out QR1,500 for the fuel. Arabic daily. rate of QR500 per container of ing presidential election, saying the poll) would be convened on by rivals Abdul Rahman Al Smaller boats spend up to half Some fishermen say they are 30 kilogrammes irrespective of its ex-army chief Abdel Fattah Al May 28. The condition of quo- Najjar and woman contestant, that sum and their operating actually operating at a loss, and content—the type of fish,” said a Sisi took power “unfairly”. rum would not apply then. The Suhaila Rabia Al Hareb. costs have also multiplied due to say the system of official monitor- fisherman. The then head of the Egyptian Chamber has 29,000 regis- THE PENINSULA the rise in diesel prices. From ing of the early morning auctions THE PENINSULA military, Sisi toppled Islamist QR1 a litre it now costs QR1.50. is to blame for their woes. Continued on page 6 president Mohamed Mursi last July, and is widely expected to win this month’s presidential election. “Sisi deposed the elected presi- Winner’s bite dent and took power unfairly. How can we elect him?” the cleric told AFP. Qaradawi is seen as a spiritual Assad and Iran have guide to the Muslim Brotherhood, the group Mursi hails from. He had issued a fatwa urging Egyptians to support the deposed head of state won the war: Tehran following his overthrow. AFP TEHRAN: Iran and its close ally countries was now the main threat facing President Bashar Al Assad have won the the Syrian people, Boroujerdi said. Many war in Syria and the US-orchestrated foreign fighters who had travelled to Syria campaign in support of the armed oppo- from Britain and other European countries TODAY’S EDITION OF sition’s bid to topple the Syrian regime could soon return. “We are worried about has failed, senior Iranian officials have the future security of Europe,” he said. THE PENINSULA told The Guardian. “We won the game in Syria easily,” said INCLUDES In a series of interviews in Tehran, top Amir Mohebbian, a conservative strategist AN EIGHT PAGE SPECIAL figures who shape Iranian foreign policy and government adviser.