ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER New S-Class Coupe hits Doha roads Business | 18 Sunday 12 October 2014 • 18 Dhu’l-Hijja 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6216 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Independent labs to test Brazil beat Argentina in friendly quality of materials New standards for construction sector soon DOHA: Plans are afoot to make and Specifications. Set up in 2011, quality of construction and the sure that independent labora- the committee has 50 experts as its materials used but also about the tories test the quality of con- members. Standards and specifica- rights of workers, contractors and struction materials being used tions for construction and mate- the owner. in public and private projects in rials are being amended in an For example, the new speci- the country. extensive way. Four amendments fications talk of paying install- New standard specifications have already come. ments to the contractor on for construction materials in line The Fifth Amendment was time as they also refer to pro- with international benchmarks approved by the State Cabinet in tecting the rights of the work- are ready for implementation, a April this year and these rules are ers engaged in the construction senior official said yesterday. to be unveiled during a conference work and its owner. Materials could be used in on Qatar’s construction specifica- So in a way, the new bench- construction only after an inde- tions to be held on the 26th and marks are a gist of laws as well pendent laboratory has issued a 27th of this month, Al Emadi said. as rules that set the standards certificate of quality. This will be a conference-cum- for quality, said Al Emadi. It, in The laboratories are not affili- exhibition to be held in collabora- fact, takes care of all aspects of ated with the producer, nor with tion with Ashghal. the construction industry. the user of the item being tested so The conference is in line with Al Emadi said that both locally there are no chances of commercial Qatar National Vision 2030 and made as well as imported construc- Argentina’s Lionel Messi (right) challenges Brazil’s Neymar (centre) during the international friendly soccer bias or use of low quality of materi- the aim is to transform Qatar tion materials such as asphalt and match titled “The Super Classic of the Americas”, at the National Stadium, or the Bird’s Nest, in Beijing, als in construction. into an advanced country by ‘readymix’, for example, will have yesterday. Brazil beat Argentina 2-0. See also page 28 Plans to have new specifications 2030 which is capable of sustain- to be tested for quality before they in place and test construction ing its own development, and are used in a project. materials by laboratories were with Standardization Strategy The new rules will also cover disclosed by Khalid Mohamed Al 2010-2020 which aims to promote the qualifications of engineers and Emadi, head of safety and qual- commitment to implementing technicians and others involved ity department at Ashghal (Public standards and quality in building with the construction industry. Nations gear Works Department), in remarks and construction projects. Their educational qualifications Bahraini opposition to Al Sharq yesterday. According to Al Emadi, the and experience will be specified in Al Emadi is also head of the Fifth Amendment of the stand- detail by the new standards and up to stem National Committee for Qatar’s ards and specifications does not specifications, he said. Construction Industry’s Standards only talk of benchmarks for the THE PENINSULA to boycott election Ebola; toll MANAMA: Four opposition She said in the remarks carried rises to 4,033 Kurds halt IS thrust in Kobane groups including the largest, by Bahrain News Agency that Al Wefaq, will boycott a parlia- groups which boycotted elections MADRID: Countries across the mentary election scheduled for continued to take part in politics world scrambled yesterday to November in Bahrain to pro- in other ways, such as through stem a deadly Ebola outbreak that test what they described as a municipal councils. UN officials warn is getting worse vote where the results would be “They tend to raise the banner as New York’s main JFK airport “fully controlled by the ruling of a boycott in an attempt to open prepared to screen travellers from authority”. the door to foreign interference epidemic-hit west Africa. Wefaq, which has strong links in our domestic affairs,” she was And in Madrid, the serious to Bahrain’s Shia majority, con- quoted as saying by BNA. condition of a Spanish nurse, who firmed yesterday that the oppo- The opposition also accused the was the first person to become sition would not take part in the authorities of using immigration infected with Ebola outside of poll because the elected parlia- to change the country’s sectarian Africa, showed signs of improving. ment will not have enough power balance in order to boost support The World Health Organisation and because voting districts for the ruling family, a charge the (WHO) reported that 4,033 peo- favour the Sunni minority. government has always denied. ple have died from Ebola as of “Any elections process with- Wefaq in May threatened to boy- October 8 out of a total of 8,399 out a peaceful transfer of power cott the election, which has been registered cases in seven coun- within a system of constitutional set for November 22, but continued tries and the disease appears to be monarchy, which is the current to take part in sporadic reconcili- outpacing efforts to fight it. situation, will be unilaterally run ation talks with the government. “The virus is far ahead of us and based on an unfair electoral In July, the government went and every day the situation gets system,” the opposition groups to court to try to suspend Wefaq’s worse,” the head of the United said in a statement. activities, saying it had broken Nations’ emergency Ebola mission Information Minister Samira both the law and its own stat- Anthony Banbury, told UN lead- Rajab did not respond directly utes, a move the group’s leader ers after a tour of Liberia, Guinea to the charge when contacted by Sheikh Ali Salman described as and Sierra Leone, the nations Reuters, but referred to her state- an attempt to force it to take part worst affected by the epidemic. ment on state media on Friday in in the coming election. A verdict At John F Kennedy Intern- Turkish soldiers on a tank and Kurdish people look at the Syrian town of Ain Al Arab, known as Kobane by which she said that all segments of has not yet been reached. ational Airport in New York, pas- the Kurds, from a hill at the Turkish-Syrian border, in the southeastern Turkish village of Mursitpinar yesterday. Bahraini society were able to take REUTERS sengers and crew arriving from the Kurdish fighters halted a thrust by Islamic State group jihadists towards the heart of Kobane, after the UN warned part in the poll. See also page 10 three countries at the centre of the thousands of civilians risked massacre. See also page 7 outbreak will have their tempera- tures taken and be screened for signs of illness and answer ques- tions about possible exposure, the US Centers for Disease Control Winter vegetable and Prevention said. Debate rages on causes of divorce Amid fears of a global contagion, two countries yesterday ruled out markets to open DOHA: Pre-marriage counselling is a equally expensive and fabulous”. “When one talks of divorce the accusing suspect cases. The Brazilian health must if the rising rate of divorce in the A million riyals has just been splurged on finger is always pointed at the woman. It ministry reported a Guinean man on December 4 Qatari community is to be checked, say a few hours of a night of ceremonies, she is said that she is too demanding and the tested negative for Ebola. And in some citizens as debate rages over who is said. “Then, young women, after their mar- husband is painted as an angel.” Macedonia, tests showed that a DOHA: Winter vegetable markets in to blame for a broken marriage: the hus- riage, mostly look at their men as though There are some women who are greedy, British man who died displaying Umm Salal (Al Mazroua), Al Khor and band or wife. they were some kind of money machine.” but there are some husbands as well who Ebola-like symptoms did not have Dakhira will open on December 4, Al A prominent Qatari sociologist says it is “Poor husband, he remains burdened with don’t want to shoulder the responsibility of the virus, officials said. Sharq reported. the wife who should mainly be held respon- debt as he has spent so much and then, con- their wives and children, she said. In Spain, attention remained The markets will offer fresh vegeta- sible for rocking her marriage, because for stantly demands are being made on him.” Pre-marriage counselling is the answer focused on 44-year-old nurse bles, fish and poultry from farms across her, the husband is nothing but a money Arrayah was seeking reaction of Qatari to the problem of rising rate of divorce, said Teresa Romero, whose condi- the country at attractive prices. The new machine. men and women as well as community elders Ahmed Mohamed Al Sayed, a national. tion “improved in the night. The markets, the first of which was opened A wedding normally costs a million riyals, and experts to the findings of a study car- He told the daily there are women who Spanish hospital source added in Umm Salal two years ago under the so for a 23-year-old man tying the knot, this ried out by the Family Consultancy Centre spend too much on luxury and makeup.