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GREAT RATES ON MONEY TRANSFER AND CURRENCY EXCHANGE GUARANTEED! Tel: 1722 8888 www.bfc.com.bh Monday, November 13, 2017 Issue No. 7564 200 Fils www.newsofbahrain.com www.facebook.com/nobonline newsofbahrain 38444680 nob_bh Villagers hit by blast toJO3082_BFC_Flag_Globe_DT_Hamper_6.7cmX8.5cm_Flag.indd be compensated 1 2/1/17 2:59 PM DT News Network [email protected] Manama he Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and FirstT Deputy Prime Minister HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa yesterday instructed to address the needs of the residents of Buri village affected by Friday’s pipeline HRH Crown Prince, Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, chairing the 18th meeting of the Supreme Council for Natural Resources yesterday explosion. The instructions came while Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla the compensation procedures Governorate Ali Al Asfoor Al Majid demanded to relocate the Crown Prince chaired the Al Khalifa and Oil Minister of the affected residents. stated that the governorate is the oil pipelines near the village 18th meeting of the Supreme Shaikh Mohammed bin Khalifa In the meeting, a report on following up on the conditions considering threat to residents Council for Natural Resources Al Khalifa on the terror attack the conditions of the affected of the residents who were and health. “The mishap was an and Economic Security. that targeted the pipeline residents were reviewed. A sheltered by government eye-opener to the danger of the During the meeting the Crown which connects Saudi Arabia plan to compensate the owners houses and shelters under the oil pipelines on the residents Prince affirmed that citizens’ and Bahrain. of 19 houses that were affected supervision of Labour and of Buri and Suq Waqif area” safety is a national priority. The Northern Governorate by the heat and oil drips was Social Development Ministry. demanding the authority to He was briefed by Interior also held a meeting with the also discussed. In a related development, the “seriously consider relocating Minister Lieutenant General parties yesterday to speed up Governor of the Northern area’s representative MP Majid the pipelines,” Al Majid said. The show begins WITH THIS PAPER Kingdom moves EXCLUSIVE TO DT SUBSCRIBERS closer to VAT 10 killed in Muhannad Mansour/DTNN of the government headed by the first quarter of 2018, [email protected] by Finance Minister Shaikh as announced by Finance earth quake Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Minister earlier this year. Manama Khalifa. The Financial and During the session, the Manama ahrain is only a step Economic Affairs Committee minister affirmed that “the massive earthquake away from implementing had passed the bills in a government is ready to measuring 7.2 on the itsB first tax system as a meeting held last week and implement the taxes at the RichterA scale rattled the bill to join the unified issued a report supporting it. earliest” in reference to the northern border between Iraq GCC tax agreements was Majority of council members three products mentioned in and Iran killing at least 10 passed by both branches voted for the bill. The bill the agreement. The minister people and injuring hundreds, of the legislative authority stipulates imposing taxes on clarified that VAT would Iran’s state television said. The yesterday. selected products that are be implemented only after quake was felt in several Iranian Shura Council yesterday harmful to health including setting up an authority that is provinces bordering Iraq approved the joining of the soft drinks (50 per cent), tasked to implement it. and eight villages have been Kingdom of Bahrain in the tobacco (100 per cent) and The minister said last week damaged, Xinhua, quoting the unified GCC agreement on energy drinks (100 per cent). that around BD58 million is steate TV said. Health officials selective taxation and Value After the approval of the expected revenues from said most of the wounded were Added Tax (VAT), less than the legislative authorities, imposing the taxes on the in Darbandikhan, 75 kilometres a week after the House of the bill will be returned to three products in 2018. east of the city of Sulaimaniyah Representatives passed it. the government for final However, the predicted in Kurdistan. -(See Page 2) This came during the approval before it could be income from the new tax council’s regular weekly implemented as a new law. system would be BD62 meeting in Gudaibiya, in the However, the taxes are million and BD66 million in presence of representatives predicted to come into effect 2020 and 2022, respectively. P P 24 HH Shaikh Nasser bin Hamad Al Khalifa and HH Shaikh Shura Council passes bill to join Khalid bin Hamad Al Khalifa during the launch of IMMAF 09 World Championships for Amatuer MMA at Khalifa Sports Arig posts steady City yesterday unified GCC tax agreements 9-months profits 2 Monday, November 13, 2017 Tremor felt in Bahrain as quake rocks Iraq Manama Ameer, who ran out of her Many have observed the massive earthquake building in the capital’s tremors to have lasted for measuring 7.2 on the Salihiya district with her three few seconds, yet its impact RichterA scale rattled the children. “I thought at first was strong enough to have northern border region that it was a huge bomb. But shaken objects and buildings. At least 10 dead, hundreds injured between Iraq and Iran then I heard everyone around Bahrain resident also took yesterday killing at least me screaming ‘Earthquake!’” to Twitter to share their 10 people and injuring There were similar scenes experience. “Our building hundreds, according to Iran’s in Erbil, the capital of the was shaking like crazy!”Lee state Television Station. semi-autonomous Kurdistan Crow tweeted. “I was upset The quake felt in several Region, and across other and ran out of the building Iranian provinces bordering cities in northern Iraq, close with my two children,” Iraq damaged eight villages, to the quake’s epicentre. Alison from Juffair tweeted. Xinhua, quoting the state The quake was even felt in Turkey’s southeastern city television, said. the Iranian capital Tehran, of Diyarbakir and Kuwait Health officials said most with some villages hit by also reported feeling a strong of the wounded were in power cuts, Iranian state TV tremor, but there were no Darbandikhan, 75 kilometres reported. immediate reports of damage (47 miles) east of the major “The quake was felt in or casualties in the city. city of Sulaimaniyah in the several Iranian provinces No harm in Kuwait semi-autonomous Kurdistan bordering Iraq ... Eight Kuwait Fire Services region. villages were damaged ... Directorate (KFSD) said the The district’s main hospital Electricity has been cut in earthquake that was felt by was severely damaged and some villages and rescue most of the people in Kuwait had no power, Kurdistan teams have been dispatched on Sunday did not cause any Regional Government’s to those areas,” TV harm. Health Minister Rekawt reported. It added in a statement it Hama Rasheed said. received more than 40 calls Some social media users Tremor felt in Bahrain from people saying they felt in the United Arab Emirates Residents in Bahrain also the tremor. (UAE), Turkey, Kuwait and reported feeling a strong Kuwait National Seismic Bahrain have also reported tremor. However, there were Network said a tremor feeling tremors. no immediate reports of measuring between 4-5 Reuters, quoting Iraqi damage. “I was on the eighth degrees on Richter scale hit meteorology official, said floor with my family when the country, caused by a 7.5 at least six people had been my wife pointed that the two magnitude earthquake that killed in the quake, whose chandeliers in our hall were struck Iraq-Iran borders. epicentre was in Penjwin, in swinging,” Joel Indrupati The earthquake epicentre the Sulaimaniyah province. told DT News. was in Iraq’s province of The US Geological Survey Another resident, Mahesh Sulaimaniya, 200 kilometres said the quake measured a Bhatia, who resides in Juffair northeast of the Iraqi capital, magnitude of 7.3, while an area, confirmed the incident Baghdad. (With input from Iraqi meteorology official saying that it had happened agencies) (With input from put its magnitude at 6.5 at approximately 9:38 am. agencies) according to preliminary information. Recording stations in Haifa in northern Israel and Beer Sheva in southern Israel measured a magnitude of 4.5 on the Richter scale. Many residents in the Iraqi capital Baghdad rushed out of houses and tall buildings in panic. “I was sitting with my kids having dinner and suddenly the building was just dancing in the air,” said Majida Monday, November 13, 2017 3 Filipino expatriate Gulf Air appoints new CEO to get justice at last Harpreet Kaur/DTNN [email protected] eny Agbulig, an expatriate According to Jenny, an expatriate from the Philippines, whose passportJ was confiscated and from the Philippines, who worked for visa cancelled by her sponsor, Transport Offshore Reclamation as a will soon get her passport. Krešimir Kučko with Zayed bin Rashid Alzayani According to Jenny, staff cleaner and a caterer assistant, who worked for Transport DT News Network position at Gulf Air, having Offshore Reclamation as a staff the sponsor confiscated her passport Manama held roles in the airline industry cleaner and a caterer assistant, and refused to give it back until she ulf Air yesterday for the past 25 years. He joins the sponsor confiscated her announced the the airline’s recently appointed passport and refused to give paid him the ransom he demand- Gappointment of Krešimir Deputy Chief Executive Officer, it back until she paid him the ed. After a long time, she will now Kučko as the Chief Executive Captain Waleed Abdulhameed ransom he demanded.