Public Prosecution Office Clears Boutiqaat from All Allegations
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Page 16 golf THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Page 14 Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com basketball TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2021 / SHABAAN 24, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17656 16 PAGES After eight months of investigation, the Public Prosecution drops the case and ruled out the ‘suspicion of money laundering’ Public Prosecution Offi ce clears Boutiqaat from all allegations following an eight-month investigation ‘Boutiqaat’ ... Integrity AFTER marathon investigations that lasted and its conformity with the main and subsidi- nearly eight months, the Public Prosecution ary records. Monday issued a decision to drop the case The company stated, “It has been confi rmed fi led against Boutiqaat Company, clearing it with certainty that all procedures and transac- The audit process included of the charges that were based on suspicions tions related to the company’s activities were The audit process included of money laundering, and affi rming that the in line with the law. all of the company’s budgets company’s activities have been conducted cor- After the control authorities in the country all contracts concluded with since its inception rectly and properly. affi rmed the integrity of our position and the celebrities and suppliers inside In a press statement, the Boutiqaat Company integrity and correctness of all our dealings, explained that the control authorities of the we will continue to work optimistically for and outside Kuwait Control authorities in- state audited the company’s budgets since its ensuring a better future for the company. We establishment; budgets that were endorsed by look forward to continue pleasing our custom- spected the buying and selling the largest audit companies in the world, The ers with the latest and best products and ser- Control authorities exam- Big Four accounting fi rms. vices, achieving new records, and realizing mechanism of more than three The audit process included inspection of the success in our online business”. ined shipments imported from million requests and verifi ed buying and selling mechanism from the point The company stressed its keenness to move abroad and their customs dec- when an order is made until the delivery and forward with the expansion of its business and the integrity collection of all sales, with the number of or- its plan to enter the global markets and con- larations ders exceeding three million. tinue serving its customers to the best possible The control authorities inspected all the con- manner. Control authorities ensured tracts concluded with suppliers both inside and It expressed its aspiration to continue its global Control authorities af- outside Kuwait, as well as the celebrities. They march as a pioneering company that placed Ku- all procedures and dealings also studied the shipments that were imported wait on the global e-commerce map. fi rmed integrity of Boutiqaat’s from abroad and their customs declarations. In conclusion, the Boutiqaat family extends were correctly initiated and They perused all the company’s sales and pay- its sincere appreciation and gratitude to its position and integrity and cor- properly engaged ment methods, as well as all of its bank ac- customers, partners, suppliers, employees, and rectness of all its dealings counts. everyone who have dealt with it for the trust Boutiqaat Company highlighted the visits they showed in the company, and to all those made by the control authorities to its head- who supported it and affi rmed its business in- quarters and warehouses to verify the stock tegrity. ARAB TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2021 2 Give and take … trial and error The close, hands-on relationship between humans and date palms continues to this day. At the plant nurseries on the Fourth Ring Road, Abu Hamza is selling the spathes of the male date palm, to be used in hand pollination. Abu Hamza is originally from Ahvaz, a town in Khuzestan province in southwest Iran that‘s a traditional date growing region. He stems Main picture: The fl ower bunches on our date palm after having been hand pollinated. Inset: The male date palm spathe after it has been opened and is ready to be used from a long line of date palm for pollination. Story and photos by Claudia Farkas Al Rashoud cultivators and for the last 25 Special to the Arab Times years has been offering his f all the plant species that have developed into an Date palms are either male or female, with the pod. Inside are many long, thin floral branches crowded Oagricultural crop during the course of human histo- male trees producing flowers with pollen and the fe- together. In spring, when the male flowers reach their ry, perhaps none is so intimately connected with people male trees producing only flowers. Since the flowers maturity, the spathes change color from green to a more services and expertise to date as the date palm. Archaeological evidence points to date have no scent the bees are not attracted to them and brownish shade and then split open. This is the time to cultivation in the Arabian Peninsula from the Bronze consequently play a very limited role in pollination, harvest them and use them for pollination. Age. There are those who claim that had the productive as is the case with other insects and the wind. If the Abu Hamza and other date palm cultivators at the palm owners in Kuwait. relationship between people and date palms not existed, male date palms do not grow in close proximity to nurseries offer their services for this job for a small fee. habitation and exploration of this hot, dry area would the females, natural pollination is very limited. That’s Since our house helpers have learned how to pollinate have been much more limited in ancient times. why Abu Hamza and a host of other date palm cultiva- date palms, we buy a spathe from Abu Hamza for one As the source of a non-perishable super food, shade, tors can be seen lined up outside the nurseries, selling dinar and take it home to do the pollination ourselves. and shelter, the date palm made life possible in the male spathes for hand pollination. We only have one date palm and it wasn’t planted harshest conditions. People also discovered how to make The origins of hand pollination extend far back into intentionally. Some years ago someone passing by our a wide variety of products used for agricultural produc- the mists of time. According to an online article titled house must have dropped a date stone in the corner tion and daily life from all parts of the tree. Ethnoecology of pollination and pollinators published in of our front garden. It sprouted and grew and we now ratios Had the date palm merely been left to grow unat- the Revue d’ethnoecologie, “the technique of hand pol- have a date palm about two meters high. Last summer it tended, without human attention, the crops it produces lination is documented through iconographic and textual produced a generous crop of red dates, probably of the would not be substantial. It was only through a long ex- sources, some of which date back to the third millennium khanezi or khasab variety, which are among the more perimental process that people learned what actions to B.C.E…. The Code of Hammurabl, the Babylonian law than 600 types of dates grown in the region. Out of these carry out in each season and in each stage of growth, so code of ancient Mesopotamia dating back to about 1754 many different kinds, however, there are usually just a that productivity increased. B.C.E.,…offers a consensual textual source for this prac- couple dozen varieties available in the local market. The close, hands-on relationship between humans tice, and we can ascertain that date palm pollination was Since our tree is not very tall it makes pollinating and date palms continues to this day. At the plant nurser- practiced in Mesopotamia as early as the Old Babylonian and later picking the dates an easy task, except for being ies on the Fourth Ring Road, Abu Hamza is selling the Period, 20th to 19th centuries B.C.E.” very careful not to get poked in the eye by the long sharp and spathes of the male date palm, to be used in hand pol- Under natural growing conditions, palm trees in palm fronds. To pollinate the female tree a few strands lination. Abu Hamza is originally from Ahvaz, a town in the wild would usually maintain an approximately of male flowers with pollen are cut from a freshly opened Khuzestan province equal number of male and female trees. Human cul- spathe and are placed lengthwise between the strands of in southwest Iran tivators adjusted this ratio when they learned that the female flowers. As they do this, working their way that‘s a traditional a single male palm can pollinate between forty to around the tree, the hands of our house helpers are soon date growing region. fifty female trees. covered in white sticky pollen dust. A long, thin strip of He stems from a long Mature male date palms can produce between five to palm frond is used to gently tie up each branch of female line of date palm cul- ten spathes each year while adult female palms can have flowers, securing the male flowers that have been placed relationships tivators and for the as many as twenty flower spathes annually. A Bahraini in the middle. last 25 years has been lady once told me that she grew up in a home with a Our date palm has ten flower spathes this year.