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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Qatar bourse Marquez starts week on claims strong note British GP Business | 17 Sport | 28 Monday 1 September 2014 • 6 Dhu’l-Qa’da 1435 • Volume 19 Number 6175 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Fresh warning Surge in illegal to eateries on packaging nurseries as DOHA: The Ministry of Municipality and Urban Planning has issued a fresh warning to eating outlets on the use of pack- fees shoot up aging material for hot and cold food items and beverages. The ministry has said in a tweet that all restaurants and cafeterias Call for strict monitoring of facilities serving food and beverages must comply with technical specifica- DOHA: Illegal nurseries Parents, however, say that tions for packaging materials. seem to be flourishing in the some nurseries that charged They must use food-grade plas- country cashing in on the QR1,500 per month last year have tic and paper packaging materi- high fees charged by the few increased their fees to QR1,800 als, including wraps, as well as licensed facilities. this year. There are others charg- plates and cups made of paper and With the summer holidays ing upto QR2,250 per month foam. It must be printed in red on coming to a close and families including transportation and all packaging materials that they back from their holidays, many registration fees. are fit for use for hot food items nurseries and kindergartens have “Nurseries have invented dif- and drinks. Similarly, it must be started increasing their fees, say ferent techniques to fleece par- printed in blue on all packaging parents and community members. ents,” the daily said, quoting a materials that they are fit for Several citizens have called on woman. packaging cold food items and the authorities to impose strict Some are charging QR350 to drinks. The outlets have been told monitoring on the nurseries to QR1,000 as registration fees. to comply as the ministry said it curb the high fees and ensure Some facilities that are also Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters fire a recoilless rifle towards Islamic State (IS) positions during heavy clashes in plans to launch inspections soon. quality service. operating kindergartens have Tuz Khurmatu in Salaheddin province, about 88km south of Kirkuk yesterday. THE PENINSULA The rising fees have forced imposed a fee of QR100 to QR200 many working parents to leave for testing them for their abil- their children in the hands of ity to qualify for KG. There are Assad swears unlicensed crèches functioning special fees for booking a seat in Iraq troops retake town from IS at homes, risking their safety, a nursery. in new govt Al Sharq reports. According to Ahmed Al KIRKUK, IRAQ: Iraqi forces also dropped humanitarian aid to Atta later said on state television. Despite a ban on such illegal Muhannadi, a Qatari media broke through yesterday to the Amerli. Colonel Mustafa Al Bayati facilities, advertisements are still expert, the number of unlicensed jihadist-besieged Shia town of The mainly Shia Turkmen resi- said last night that the town of DAMASCUS: Syria’s embat- appearing on websites and other crèches in Qatar are much higher Amerli, where thousands of peo- dents of the town in Salaheddin Amerli was “completely secure”, tled President Bashar Al Assad public spaces, seeking admissions than the licensed ones. ple have been trapped for more province were running desper- but clashes were still ongoing in swore in his new government to those “home nurseries” which Such facilities are flourishing in than two months with dwin- ately short of food and water, and villages to its west. yesterday, saying security and lack the basic safety require- many neighbourhoods and fami- dling food and water supplies. endangered both because of their The operation to free Amerli reconstruction would be top ments, said the daily. lies are forced to put their chil- It is the biggest offensive suc- Shia faith, which jihadists con- was launched on Saturday after priorities and urging ministers With private nurseries getting dren in such unsafe environment. cess for the Iraqi government sider heresy, and their resistance days of preparations in which Iraqi to tackle corruption. highly commercialised, many There is no proper mechanism to since militants led by the Sunni to the militants, which has drawn security forces, Shia militiamen The new government, appointed citizens have called on the gov- monitor the nurseries, he said. jihadist group Islamic State (IS) harsh retribution elsewhere. and Kurdish fighters deployed for earlier this week after Assad’s ernment to set up crèches at Nursery managers, however, overran large areas of five prov- UN Iraq envoy Nickolay the assault and Iraqi aircraft car- June re-election, takes office as ministries and public institutions say that high building rents and inces in June, sweeping security Mladenov had warned that they ried out strikes against militants. the death toll in the country’s for the benefit of their women high cost of study material and forces aside. faced a “massacre” by the besieg- Kurdish fighters and Shia mili- conflict since March 2011 soars employees. play equipment for children have The breakthrough came as the ing militants. “Our forces entered tiamen, meanwhile, clashed with past 191,000. Justifying the high fees, nurser- forced them to hike the fees. United States carried out limited Amerli and broke the siege,” Iraqi militants who hold Sulaiman Bek The crippling violence has ies claim that they have been given They also say that their facili- strikes in the area, the first time security spokesman Lieutenant and Yanakaja, north of Amerli. damaged the country’s economy permission by the authorities to ties are subject to frequent it has expanded its more than General Qassem Atta told AFP, an The fighting killed two mem- and displaced approximately half increase the fees by three to five inspection and strict monitoring three-week air campaign against account confirmed by a local offi- bers of the Kurdish Peshmerga its population, including three per cent considering the hike in by the authorities concerned. militants outside of Iraq’s north. cial and a fighter from the town. forces. AFP million Syrians who have taken rentals and other overhead costs. THE PENINSULA Aircraft from several countries “It is a very important success,” See also page 6 refuge abroad. AFP Ukrainian Ministry intensifies drive against partitioned villas rebels claim DOHA: The Ministry of Owners who don’t comply with affordable housing). down on illegal villas and apart- QR200 to QR400. The amended Municipality and Urban this deadline will be penalised, Al Sharq reports that the min- ments. The amended law pre- law says that to carry out any first sea victory Planning has intensified Al Sharq reported yesterday. istry has intensified its drive scribes a fine of QR250 to QR500 repair or renovation, mainte- its campaign against ille- The ministry has reiterated against such villas and flats and per square metre of illegally par- nance work, partitioning or KIEV: Ukraine said one of its gally partitioned villas and that it is illegal to partition villas booked a number of violators. titioned area in a piece of real painting, a written permission naval vessels came under artil- apartments. and apartments without approv- However, as a gesture of help estate property. from the municipality of the lery attack from the shore yes- The ministry has singled out als from the municipality of the the ministry has given a week’s The changes made in a villa area is needed. terday, in what pro-Russian a large number of villas and flats area concerned. time to families living in make- or flat need to be undone at the Contractors or engineers who rebels claimed as the first sea all over the country that have Huge fines await those who shift units in such villas and owner’s expense after the fine has are asked to build, repair, reno- victory of their separatist war. been partitioned in violation of indulge in such partitioning (done apartments to move to proper been paid. vate or partition a house must “A Ukrainian border patrol cut- safety rules. by owners and middlemen to pro- houses. And if a wall, permanent or check the design of the house and ter in the Azov Sea was attacked The owners of these residences vide cheaper accommodation to In June this year, the govern- temporary, has been erected to make sure that it is approved by from the shore today. Artillery was have been given a week’s time limited-income expatriate fami- ment amended a law giving more create an illegal partition, the the municipality. used. A rescue operation is under to move families living there. lies in times of acute shortage of powers to municipalities to crack fine per square metre will be THE PENINSULA way,” Ukrainian military spokes- man Andriy Lysenko told Reuters. A Ukrainian military officer who asked not to be named said: Policemen retreat “It appears that a ship has been damaged, I do not know who Israel downs Syria exactly fired on it and with what.” No further details were avail- able on the vessel and the number of crew on board. drone over Golan “The militia have dealt the enemy their first naval defeat,” JERUSALEM: Israel downed deployed armoured troop carri- Igor Strelkov, a separatist mili- a drone over the occupied Golan ers, an AFP photographer said. tary commander who stepped Heights yesterday, the army said, Yaalon warned that Israeli “tol- down in mid-August, said on the amid mounting tension on the erance” should not be tested.

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