• Abstract and Figures
• Public Full-text

SUBSCRIPTION MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015 JAMADA ALTHANI 24, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Panel rejects law to set up Min 20º Max 31º company to recruit maids High Tide 06:35 & 17:30 MP Dashti claims shots fired at his cars Low Tide 00:00 & 12:00 40 PAGES NO: 16489 150 FILS By B Izzak that the issue be transferred to the finan- PAGE PAGE cial and economic affairs committee. The Pope comments Man City blown KUWAIT: The National Assembly’s health lawmaker said that as many as 37 MPs and labor committee yesterday rejected a have signed the proposal, which also won enrage Turkey away by United draft law calling to establish a public government support. The idea behind the shareholding company responsible for the proposal is to end the chaos in the recruit- recruitment and employment of domestic ment of maids business and to find a solu- helpers. The bill proposed that the public tion for endless problems and abuses in pension fund and Kuwait Investment the sector. Dozens of private offices oper- Authority (KIA), both government bodies, ate in the market and charge highly will own 25 percent each of the company, expensive fees. while the remaining 50 percent will be The interior ministry meanwhile said it sold to citizens. has arrested three Kuwaiti teenagers who MP Saadoun Hammad, rapporteur of confessed to damaging the windshields of the panel, said the committee reviewed several vehicles in Salwa. Two of the vehi- the proposal with representatives for the cles belonged to MP Abdulhameed Dashti. Interior Ministry, KIA and the pension fund, Dashti said on his Twitter account yester- adding that the latter two refused to take day morning that shots were fired at two part in the proposed firm. MP Kamel Al- of his cars parked outside his home in Awadhi, one of 37 lawmakers who signed Salwa. He posted pictures of an interior the draft law, however spoke of a conspira- ministry patrol inspecting the scene. The cy to kill the bill despite the approval of a interior ministry insisted in its statement majority of MPs and the government. that no shots were fired and the three Awadhi, former head of the immigra- teenagers arrested are 17 and 18 years old. tion department, said the proposal had It said they also damaged glass panes of a been presented nine months ago and the barbershop and the ministry was still panel did nothing to discuss it. He said he investigating the issue. will request in the next Assembly session Continued on Page 13 Riyadh rebuffs Iran call to end Yemen airstrikes Pakistan minister hits out at UAE ADEN/RIYADH: Saudi Arabia dismissed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Iranian calls to end air strikes on neigh- Khamenei said on Thursday that the air boring Yemen yesterday. Riyadh said strikes were a “crime and genocide” and Tehran should not interfere in Yemen, Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani called where Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies for a ceasefire and dialogue among began air strikes against Iranian-allied Yemen’s factions. Saudi Arabia and its Houthi militia fighters over two weeks Sunni Arab allies bombing Yemen fear that Shiite Iran seeks hegemony by backing armed Shiite groups in the region, a charge the Islamic Republic denies. Saudi Arabia heads a coalition of nine Arab countries which since March 26 has carried out air strikes against the Houthi Shiite rebels who overran the capital Sanaa in September. Fabius voiced political support for Saudi Arabia’s operation, saying in Riyadh that his country “has expressed its readiness to find a solution” for Yemen. At the news conference along- side Fabius, Prince Saud called on Tehran not to “assist the criminal activi- ties” of the Houthis “against the legiti- mate order of Yemen and (to) stop the Prince Saud Al-Faisal delivery of weapons and aid” to the ago to try and prevent them making rebels. But he insisted that “we are not further advances. “How can Iran call for at war with Iran”. us to stop the fighting in Yemen?” Saudi Separately, Islamabad yesterday hit Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal said in out at the United Arab Emirates for the Saudi capital Riyadh at a news con- condemning a parliamentary vote by ference with his French counterpart Pakistani lawmakers to stay out of the Laurent Fabius. “We came to Yemen to conflict in Yemen, in a rare display of help the legitimate authority, and Iran discord between the two allies. is not in charge of Yemen.” Continued on Page 13 One Qatar restaurant lets poor eat for free DOHA: In a dusty corner of Qatar’s But the “Industrial Area”, rarely seen by booming capital, a sign outside a modest outsiders, is a different Qatar one which pro- restaurant popular with migrant laborers vides essential labour and materials for the reads: “If you are hungry and have no country’s massive and relentless expansion. money, eat for free!!!” Sixteen kilometers It is at the margin of Doha life, both geo- from the gleaming glass towers of Doha, graphically and metaphorically, but home one of the richest places on the planet, to a restaurant called Zaiqa doing some- sits the “Industrial Area” of small-scale thing apparently unique for the oil-rich Gulf workshops, factories and low-cost state. About three weeks ago the Indian accommodation. It is only a 40-minute brothers who own Zaiqa decided to put up drive south of the centre of the Qatari a small makeshift sign offering free food to capital and its luxury shops, upmarket customers who cannot afford to pay. brands and expensive restaurants. Continued on Page 13 DOHA: Shadab Khan, one of the Indian owners of Zaiqa restaurant, poses for a pho- tograph on March 31, 2015 in the southern suburbs of the Qatari capital. — AFP LOCAL MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015 Amir expresses condolences for actor Saleh’s demise KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Saturday extended his deepest condo- lences for the death of actor Ahmad Al- Saleh. In a cable to the deceased family, HH the Amir said Kuwait theater has lost one of its icons, who contributed to the advancement of theater, praying for Almighty Allah to bestow him with her mercy. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable to Al-Saleh’s family extending condolences for the death of their son, and praising his contribution to art. HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al- Hamad Al-Sabah sent a similar cable. Meanwhile, HH the Amir sent a cable His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah of condolences to Moroccan King Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Mohammad VI, over the demise of around 40 young athletes and children in tragic incident. Last night, roughly 40 a road accident, including dozens people, many of them young athletes, injured, hoping for a speedy recovery of were killed and ten others seriously the injured. HH the Crown Prince and HH injured when a bus collided with a truck the Prime Minister sent similar cables near Tan-Tan city in southern Morocco expressing their condolences on the Friday night. —KUNA His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Minister of the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Speaker receives NUKS Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. Chairman in Washington Deputy Amir receives top state officials WASHINGTON: National Assembly Speaker attitude toward the law, hoping to reach Marzouq Ali Al-Ghanem received Chairman of mutual understanding. Ghanim, accompa- KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and National Union of Kuwait Student - USA nied by MPs Yusuf Al-Zalzalah and Khalil Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Branch Mohammad Al-Zayed and union Abdullah, was received upon his arrival in Sabah received at Seif Palace yesterday Deputy members in Washington, DC late Saturday. the US on Saturday, by Kuwait’s Ambassador Chief of the National Guard Sheikh Meshaal Al- Ghanim stressed the National Assembly’s to the US Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. keenness to listen to various views and pro- Al-Sabah and Dr Merza Hassan, World Bank HH the Deputy Amir also received Minister of posals by student, regarding a proposed draft Board Member. —KUNA the Amiri Diwan Affairs Sheikh Nasser Sabah Al- law, expected to be submitted very soon, for Ahmad Al-Sabah, Acting Prime Minister, Minister regulating the student movement, expressing of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al- confidence in prospects of reaching consen- Hamad Al-Sabah, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister sus between the lawmakers and those in of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al- charge of the movement through dialogue. Hamad Al-Sabah, as well as Deputy Prime Ghanim, who is participating in the Global Minister, Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al- Parliamentary Conference that is hosted by Jarrah Al-Sabah. the Global Parliamentary Network of the HH the Deputy Amir also received Acting World Bank and International Monetary Fund National Assembly Speaker Mubarak Al-Khurainej, (IMF), urged the Kuwaiti student unions to for- Minister of Information, Minister of State for Youth ward suggestions and make their voices heard Affairs Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem Al-Humoud to the largest number of legislators, in order Al-Sabah and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber to be studied before voting by the National Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- Al-Sabah meets Deputy Chief of the National Guard Sheikh Meshaal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Assembly.

Load more

  40

Copy Link