markets Page 9 Pages 15 & 16 THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT basketball Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com THURSDAY, JULY 1, 2021 / ZUL-QAADAH 21, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17728 16 PAGES 150 FILS MINISTER LAMENTS LACK OF COORDINATION ON KEY BILLS Other Voices Special session adjourned Security in an Deportation of protester hit improper place By Saeed Mahmoud Saleh located for the ministers. Arab Times Staff and Agencies Meanwhile, MPs Abdulkareem Al-Kandari, Abdulaziz Al-Saqaabi, Muhannad Al-Sayer, By Ali Ahmed Al-Baghli Thamer Al-Suwait Farz Al-Daihani and Obaid Al-Wasmi have rejected the decision of Inte- Former Minister of Oil KUWAIT CITY, June 30: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq rior Minister Sheikh Thamer Ali Al-Sabah to deport a Jordanian for participating in a sit-in at Al-Ghanim adjourned the special session on Wednesday due to the Erada Square to express objection to health regulations regarding unvaccinated individuals. LAST Sunday, hundreds of Kuwait Police officers Al-Wasmi said the decision violates the International Declaration of Human Rights, stress- were deployed in malls in implementation of the absence of the government as per Article 116 of the Constitution. ing that freedom of expression is part of human rights which do not distinguish between the unsound official decision to not allow entry for The government did not attend the session because of the lack of coordination on unvaccinated people into commercial complexes, expatriates and citizens. restaurants and cafes. items in the agenda, while members of the 31 MPs Bloc did not occupy the seats al- Al-Kandari argued that if freedom of speech, which is safeguarded by the Constitution, is only It is a decision that creates division within applicable to citizens; it will be families, and among friends and acquaintances as turned into a tool for discrimina- some of them are not vaccinated and some oth- tion among individuals based on ers are waiting for their turn to get vaccinated. So citizenship. He added that it is not why should the unvaccinated be punished when right to deport an expatriate for the matter is not in their hands, but in the hands expressing his opinion, especially of the employees of the young sheikh minister? since the latter neither defamed Almost all countries of the civilized world and Kuwait nor maligned democracy. others have vaccinated Al-Daihani pointed out the expa- most of their people and triate did nothing but criticize deci- residents, except for Ku- sions which affected himself and he wait - the country of con- has the right to do so. He wondered flicting and ill-considered if an expatriate worker will be de- decisions, the last of which ported just because he demanded is related to visiting com- for the payment of his salary. mercial complexes, res- Al-Sayer intends to follow up taurants, cafes, salons and the cancellation of the deporta- health clubs. tion decision as part of his hu- One of my acquaintanc- manitarian duty rather than his es told me that she went to political duty. a ladies’ salon in the area Al-Suwait stressed that it is un- Al-Baghli where she resides, and she acceptable to boast about our free was allowed entry as she has been vaccinated with and democratic country if racism the two doses. However, when she asked the four and chauvinism are practiced here. Asian hairdressers in the salon if they received the He suggested the deportation de- vaccine, they all answered “No”. This is a story cision should be issued as a court that we dedicate to our young minister, the young verdict rather than putting it in the sheikh, the Minister of Health and the member of hands of security authorities. our rational government, whose instructions and decisions we just obey. Freedom Regarding the security forces who throng the Al-Saqaabi added Kuwaitis are shopping malls and show off, they have left the proud of the freedom they enjoy, streets free and uncontrolled for the violators, the while dictatorship is prevalent in latest consequence of which was the crime com- many parts of the world. “Do not mitted in broad daylight on Monday in Mahboula spoil everything that is good in area where officer Abdul Aziz Al-Rashidi was our country,” he concluded. stabbed to death. The crime was committed by a On the other hand, MP Has- young criminal who, the security forces later dis- san Jawhar underscored the need covered, had also killed his mother because she to provide citizens with accurate did not give him the money he wanted. information about the financial The video of the killer stabbing the martyred of- status of the State before ratify- ficer was broadcasted on social media. In the video, ing the general budget. two vehicles of the security forces can be seen in the Citing last year’s presentation vicinity but the officers in those vehicles did not get Palestinian demonstrators march with torches during a demonstration against the West Bank Jewish settlement outpost of Eviatar that was on the financial status of the State, out of them to save their colleague from the bloody rapidly established last month, at the Palestinian village of Beita, near the West Bank city of Nablus, June 27. The Palestinians say it was Jawhar disclosed the total assets fate he faced. This happened at a time when security- established on their farmland and fear it will grow and merge with other large settlements in the area. (AP) and investments of the country men are busy displaying their uniforms, strength and at the time reached KD 219 bil- authority over helpless visitors in malls. lion. However, he said this figure These visitors are able to enter those com- Israel reaches outpost compromise is incorrect; considering the press plexes only after proving to those standing at the statement that His Highness the entrances that they completed their vaccinations. Israel has reached a compromise with Jewish settlers who rapidly land and fear it will grow and merge with larger settlements nearby. Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah However, what benefit do we reap from the show established an unauthorized outpost in the occupied West Bank last They have held near-daily protests against the outpost in which dem- Al-Khalid issued in Washington displayed by the securitymen inside those com- month, officials and the settlers said Wednesday. onstrators hurl stones at Israeli troops, who fire tear gas and live in 2016 during his tenure as for- plexes? Is the job of the securitymen in Kuwait Under the agreement, the settlers will leave by the end of the week. ammunition. At least four protesters, including two teenagers, have eign affairs minister. At the time, now limited to displaying their authority in the The area will become a closed military zone, but the houses and roads been killed in the clashes. he announced in the presence of commercial complexes, and leaving the streets for will remain in place. A survey will be carried out that the settlers say The settlers announced a compromise earlier this week at a celebra- then US Secretary of State John violators and criminals? This time, the victim was will prove the outpost was not established on land privately owned by tory press conference, while the government said negotiations were still Kerry that the total Kuwaiti in- one of their colleagues who was killed in broad Palestinians. That would pave the way authorization, allowing them to underway. This time, Israeli officials signaled it was a done deal. vestment in the USA in relation daylight in an unprecedented manner in front of establish a religious school and for some families to return. Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, a member of Prime Minister to the Future Generations Fund pedestrians and motorists. The settlers named the outpost Eviatar, after an Israeli killed by a Naftali Bennett’s pro-settler party, tweeted that the deal is “an im- reached $300 billion. He quoted May God have mercy on the martyred officer Palestinian in 2013, and say it is home to dozens of families. It posed portant achievement” for the settlement movement and thanked the HH the Prime Minister as saying Abdul Aziz Al-Rasheedi ... and may God punish an early test for Israel’s new government, which relies on a fragile “pioneers of Eviatar.” Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, from the that such investment will generate those who caused his death through that heinous coalition including parties that support and oppose the settlers. left-wing Labor Party, welcomed the evacuation of the settlers from Palestinians in nearby villages say the outpost was built on their the “illegal outpost.” (AP) job opportunities for the Ameri- crime. cans, asserting the then Minister Email: [email protected] of Finance Anas Al-Saleh con- firmed this when he announced Doctors migrate abroad NATO & Iraq that the total Kuwaiti investment in America was $400 billion — $300 billion for the Future Gen- Newswatch talk security erations Fund and $100 billion for Lebanon health sector suffers Kuwait National Petroleum Com- BRUSSELS, June 30, (KUNA): pany (KNPC) and Public Institu- NATO Secretary General Jens tion for Social Security (PIFSS). BEIRUT, June 30, (KUNA): Lebanon’s health sector is they face at work. He added the premier and Al- KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health on suffering the impact of the deteriorating economic con- Doctors’ salaries are very low and some are almost Stoltenberg met Iraqi Prime Minis- Wednesday said that 1,836 people were infected with ter Mustafa Al-Kadhemi at NATO Saleh confirmed that the above- ditions and the drop of the local currency against the US working free, while others who had collected money mentioned amount ($ 400 billion) the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and eight others, dollar (USD), leading many doctors and medical staff to over the long years of work are unable to use it as banks Headquarters in Brussels Wednes- day and discussed the cooperation constitute 54 percent of the over- including seven unvaccinated, died of the disease in the immigrate in search of a better life.