ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Thursday 1 August 2013 23 Ramadan 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5778 Price: QR2 GCC hospitality Sri Lanka crush sector sees South Africa strong growth in Colombo Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 World record with balloons Allowances of Parents meet prosecutors, judges raised minister on DOHA: Qatari judges, assist- ant judges and Qatari members of public prosecution, includ- ing assistant public prosecutors will now get huge allowances exam results amounting to 120 percent of their monthly salaries. The government has, effective Call to revoke results rejected from yesterday, raised the allow- ances, Qatar News Agency (QNA) DOHA: A number of angry Several parents complained reported yesterday. parents of students who failed that the results had come as a The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim in the second term of the sec- shocker for them since their chil- bin Hamad Al Thani issued Emiri ondary school examination this dren were high performers and decisions No 80 and 81 of 2013 for year converged at the office very good students. increasing the allowance of Qatari of the education minister on At least one parent who gave judges, their assistants, members Tuesday and demanded that the his name as Faleh Al Hajri, a pub- of the public prosecutors and results be revoked. lic servant, said the Independent their assistants 120 percent of the The minister, who made the Schools were of no use. “We want salary without upper limit. parents wait for a while and met the old school education system Their existing allowances were with them later, put his foot down to be back where there were sep- 60 percent of the salary without and tried to pacify them, but said arate administrations for each any upper limit. in a determined tone the results level — primary, preparatory and THE PENINSULA were final and no alterations secondary.” were possible. “This is the sys- The parents said the second tem school, college and university term examination of the final year administrations follow the world of the secondary school examina- A car drives on a road while hot-air balloons fly over Chambley-Bussieres, eastern France, yesterday, in an Strong winds over. We cannot change the results tion was quite tough and questions attempt to set a world record with 408 balloons in the sky, as part of the yearly event “Lorraine Mondial Air to please you,” said the Minister of for some subjects were asked out Ballons”, an international air-balloon meeting. expected today Education and Higher Education of the course. H E Dr Mohamed Abdul Wahid Al “This was particularly true of DOHA: Strong winds are Hammadi, who is also Secretary- the chemistry and mathemat- expected again today and the General of the Supreme Education ics papers,” said a parent whose unstable weather could con- Council (SEC). The parents gath- daughter, he said, had failed in tinue until Saturday morning, ered at the tower in Al Dafna, both subjects. Syrian opposition plans to according to the Meteorology the headquarters of the SEC that The minister said that instead Department. houses the minister’s office. of paying attention to their chil- Northwesterly winds with Parents blamed the online dren’s education only after the speeds ranging from 18 knots to evaluation system for the high final examination, parents would form government after Eid 28 knots, reaching 30 knots an percentage of students who failed do better to monitor them the hour at times, could result in poor in the second term examination whole year. visibility in many places. of the final year of the three-year He said the local media had DOHA: Syria’s opposition plans and credible. It remains unclear, Jarba was quoted by Qatar Winds would gather momen- secondary school. wrongly reported that the pass to set up an interim govern- however, how any government in News Agency (QNA) as saying tum by noon and cause high sea The pass percentage in schools percentage in the secondary ment in August to run areas exile would exert authority on the the coalition realised that a solu- waves offshore. Temperature that follow the government cur- examination was 70. The fact under rebel control, an opposi- ground among the disparate rebel tion to the civil war would require would be between 43 and 46 riculum was 42 for science stream, is that the percentage varies tion official said yesterday. factions, which include an affiliate negotiation with the authorities. degrees Celsius. 41.2 for arts stream with French between 10 and 12. “There is a plan to form a gov- of Al Qaeda. But he wanted to see changes on However, a pleasant breeze language, and 62 for arts with How a student would perform ernment in exile 10 days after More than 100,000 people the ground in favour of the rebels could be expected during night, mathematics and science as extra in the second term would be Eid,” said Omar Kouch, a senior have been killed in Syria’s civil before any talks could start. and this is “due to the nature subjects. Independent Schools, amply clear from his first term leader of the Syrian National war and a proposed peace con- “The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim of the dry northerly winds,” the that had 1,140 students — the results, said the minister. “So, Coalition. ference, floated in May by the bin Hamad Al Thani has affirmed forecasters said. maximum among all the schools attention should have been paid “We have more than one can- US and Russia, shows no sign of that Qatar will always be with the THE PENINSULA —had 62.5 percent result. by you then.” didate for the prime minister materialising. Syrian people and will never give At special schools that teach He said rules allowed re-eval- post,” he added, following a visit The conference is meant to up supporting Syrians,” he told religion, for instance, the pass uation in the case of a student, to Qatar by a delegation led by establish a provisional govern- QNA. RAMADAN TIMING percentage was higher but only so parents who believe their chil- the coalition’s new leader Ahmed ment of national unity, includ- “Now, we will not go to any Todays Iftar three students appeared in the dren failed because their papers Al Jarba. ing figures from the opposition talks until the Free Syrian Army 6:21pm examination and two of them were not evaluated properly could The exiled opposition wants the and the current authorities, and and the other revolutionary passed. sit with an evaluator and see for US and European countries to to pave the way for elections. forces are strong on the ground Tomorrow’s Imsak In Qatar, children have 12 years themselves how their children supply it with advanced weapons But plans to hold it June or July and coherent, as they were eight 03:27am of schooling — six at the primary performed, but they must follow in the civil war against President unravelled after momentum on months ago,” Jarba said. level, and three each for prepara- due procedures. Bashar Al Assad, and is trying the battlefield swung in favour of REUTERS tory and secondary levels. THE PENINSULA to show them that it is united Assad. See also page 10 Cabinet orders Drive to catch stray cats, dogs Qatar appoints first female envoy police to end DOHA: Qatar yesterday appointed its first woman ambassador DOHA: The Ministry of in the person of Sheikha Moza bint Nasser bin Ahmed bin Ali Al Environment has com- Thani. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yester- pro-Mursi sit-in menced a drive to catch day issued Emiri decision No 89 of 2013 appointing Sheikha Moza stray dogs and cats. bint Nasser bin Ahmed bin Ali Al Thani as Extraordinary and CAIRO: Egypt’s cabinet yester- The drive aims to protect Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Croatia. day ordered a police crackdown the environment and pub- The Emir also appointed five more Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary on protests by ousted president lic health and to minimise Ambassadors to various countries including Ahmed Abdul Rahman Mohammed Mursi’s loyalists, the chances of health haz- Mohammed Al Sunaidi (Central Africa), Mohammed Jaber Ahmed as European envoys headed for ards due to the surge of the Al Kuwari (Benin), Abdullah Ahmed Yousef Ahmed Al Mutawa Cairo to try to ease tensions stray animal population in (Kazakhstan), Ali Mubarak Said Al Mohanadi (Tajikistan) and between the army-installed gov- the streets. Abdullah Mohammed Ibrahim Al Derbasti (Paraguay). ernment and Islamists. The decision was taken THE PENINSULA The order to the interior minis- to achieve international ter raised the prospect of a danger- level as per directives of ous showdown just days after 82 the World Society for the Saudi prince loses Gaddafi jet court battle people were killed at a pro-Mursi Protection of Animals protest in Cairo. (ASPA). LONDON: A billionaire Saudi prince was ordered by a British It came as diplomatic efforts to Qatar has been divided court yesterday to pay a $10m commission on the sale of his private find a peaceful way out of Egypt’s into several zones and a jet to Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, in a humiliating legal defeat for crisis gathered pace, with the EU team has been assigned to one of the world’s richest men. and Germany sending envoys to each area. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a nephew of the Custodian of the Two Holy urge a peaceful resolution to the The stray animals are Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, had spent two days defending standoff.