ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 21 Sport | 31 H H Sheikha Moza bint Qatar Exchange logged Qatar sports star Nasser Nasser officially opened its longest winning Saleh Al Attiyah has been Qatar Biobank’s new streak in the year by elected as a member of facility at Hamad Bin extending the rally to ISSF Athletes Committee Khalifa Medical City. eighth straight session. for a four-year period. THURSDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2015 • 23 Rabial II 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6339 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 OPINION SCH warns of Emir meets Iraq President Unity against Boko Haram action against HE danger of Boko Haram is no longer con- Tfined to Nigeria as this organisation is actively involved in terror- Seha misuse ist acts in many neigh- Expats to be covered by end of 2016 bouring countries. DOHA: The Supreme Council manipulate the system. The fraud It has of Health (SCH) has warned was detected while the company become the public and health care was conducting regular audits on a threat providers against misuse of invoices. One case has already not only the national health insurance been referred to the SCH and to the Dr Khalid Al Jaber scheme (Seha) saying it has reports about the second and security detected three cases of sus- third cases are being prepared. and stability of the African pected fraud until now. If the SCH investigation con- continent but the entire world. The National Health Insurance firms a violation of the law, action Boko Haram is the African Company (NHIC) managing Seha will be taken immediately including The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with President of the Republic of Iraq, Dr Fuad Masum, at the affiliate of Al Qaeda like the has launched a campaign “Kun closure of the facility or other legal Emiri Diwan yesterday. Talks dealt with bilateral relations and ways to boost them. The meeting was attended Ansar Al Sharia in Libya, Al Ainuna” (Be Our Eyes) urging action. “We distinguish complaints by the Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani. See also page 8 Shabab in Somalia, Al Qaeda Seha beneficiaries to report any related to misuse or manipulation in the Maghreb and Yemen suspicious cases. All citizens are from those raised because of mis- and IS in Iraq and Syria. All covered by Seha in the current understanding of the health sys- of them specialise in commit- phase, which will be expanded to tem or those related to the quality ting crimes against human- expatriates in a later phase. of services,” said Faleh Hussain. ity, including children. Boko The NHIC yesterday also For instance, one may find a Haram is also known for announced a delay in implementa- doctor deliberately providing 94,289 visas for Filipinos on cards abduction of schoolgirls and tion of the scheme for expatriates health services to a person he recruiting underage people in saying the latter will be covered knows who is not covered by Seha BY RAYNALD C RIVERA Matters. “This means that many Development Authority (Tesda), grave violation of all humani- only by the end of 2016, instead of by registering him in another per- employers here prefer Filipinos while the professionals, on the tarian principles and laws. 2015 as originally scheduled. son’s file, who is a Seha member. DOHA: Thousands of jobs, in certain job categories for other hand, are experienced and Boko Haram was founded in Addressing a news conference The doctor may also provide mostly related to the country’s skilled workers and profession- licensed, he said. 2002. Boko in Hausa language yesterday, Dr Faleh Mohammed specific health services and enter preparation for World Cup als,” Labor Attache Leopoldo The Philippines has received means book and Haram is Hussain, acting CEO of NHIC the details as “other services”. 2022, await Filipinos in Qatar. B De Jesus told The Peninsula 78,426 job orders from Qatar, the from Arabic, together meaning said the company is closely moni- “There are many ways of manip- There are 94,289 visas reserved yesterday. latest figures which are based on ‘Western education is forbid- toring the scheme and has been ulating. It is easy for the supervi- for Filipino workers that Qatar Knowledge and experience as the job requests by manpower den’, which is embodied in the developing mechanisms to pre- sors to discover them by close is hoping to be deployed soon, well as English language profi- companies processed by the holy books according to the per- vent manipulation. “There are a monitoring,” said Faleh Hussain. mostly in the health sector and ciency are some of the reasons Philippine Overseas Employment ception of the group. African number of auditing procedures He said more than one million the ongoing rail project, Deputy why employers prefer Filipino Administration (POEA), he added. countries are fully aware of which can reveal any suspicious citizens have availed of the health Minister of Labour and Social workers to be part of their com- The population of Filipinos in the dangers of Boko Haram cases which immediately can be services under Seha until now at Affairs Hussein bin Youssef Al panies, said De Jesus. Qatar currently stands at 188,000, but confronting it seems to be interrogated,” said Faleh Hussain. more 180 health care facilities Mulla informed the Philippine Skilled Filipino workers who the Ministry told the Philippine beyond their ability. He said the NHIC recently included in the scheme. delegation during the recent come here have the knowledge delegation. Continued on page 8 discovered three cases that can Continued on page 8 second Philippines-Qatar Joint and right training courtesy of Continued on page 8 THE PENINSULA be considered as attempts to THE PENINSULA Committee Meeting on Labour Technical Education and Skills THE PENINSULA INSIDE US, UK and France shut US gunman kills three Page 11 embassies in Yemen SANA’A: Yemenis in the central city of Growing violence Taiz and Sana’a held the largest protests Muslim students in Arab countries yet against a takeover by a Shia militia group yesterday after the United States, CHAPEL HILL: A gunman appeared briefly before a Durham By Dr Shafiq Al Britain and France shut their embassies who had posted anti-religious County judge who ordered him held Ghabra in Yemen over security fears. messages on Facebook and without bail pending a March 4 Armed Houthi rebels seized more than quarrelled with neighbours probable cause hearing. Police said 20 US vehicles after the ambassador and was charged with killing three a preliminary investigation showed Drying up sources of diplomats left from the airport. Embassy young Muslims in what police the motive to be a parking dispute. sympathy for terrorism workers had already destroyed weapons, said yesterday was a dispute They said Hicks turned himself in By Khalil Ali Haidar computers and documents, they added. over parking and possibly a hate and was cooperating with police. On Tuesday, the United States said it crime. The shooting sparked the hash- had stopped work at its embassy and was Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, of tag #MuslimLivesMatter on social withdrawing its diplomatic staff. France Chapel Hill, was charged with media, with many posters assailing and Britain followed suit yesterday. first-degree murder in Tuesday’s what they called a lack of news cov- Ministry to lower Employees of the German Embassy said shootings around 2200 GMT near erage and world reaction. “I guess its mission was also getting rid of sensitive the University of North Carolina that Muslims are only newsworthy fire safety documents and would close soon. campus. His Facebook page said when behind the gun, not in front,” In Taiz, which the Houthis do not con- he was studying to be a paralegal. tweeted a poster who goes by the inspection fee trol, tens of thousands carried banners The victims were newlyweds handle @biebersrivals. DOHA: The Ministry of and chanted slogans against the group. Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23, a Groups including the Muslim Interior has plans to lower Houthi forces advanced far into the south University of North Carolina Public Affairs Council, the the fee it charges for inspec- on Tuesday night, according to local offi- dental student, and his wife Yusor Council on American-Islamic tion of fire safety measures in cials, continuing with their of expansion Mohammad, 21, and Yusor’s sister, Relations (CAIR) and the local buildings. of recent months which is raising fears Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, 19. Raleigh-based Muslims for Social The inspections are conducted of an all-out civil war. Yemeni protesters take part in anti-Houthi rally in the southern All were involved in humanitarian Justice called for a federal inves- by the ministry’s Civil Defence See also page 12 aid programmes. tigation into possible hate crimes. city of Taiz yesterday. (CD) Department. It is only REUTERS The suspect, in handcuffs, REUTERS after these inspections that the CD issues occupancy certificates for new buildings and clearances for renewal of shop, office and industrial licences. The State Cabinet yesterday approved a draft decision of the Tap water as safe as bottled water: QF study Interior Ministry that seeks to amend some provisions of DOHA: Only 30 percent of the local water to sun and extreme heat. “The real take away message is that local residents feel about Qatar’s drinking an earlier ministerial decision population regularly drink tap water, Heat and sun exposure weaken the plas- tap water in the country is just as safe as water,” explained Rowell. (Number 19 of 2007) regulating reveals a Qatar Foundation (QF) study tic bottle and can release chemicals, such bottled water, either locally produced or The answers were clear, only about 30 the fee structures of the min- that has reconfirmed the high quality of as antimony and lead, from the container imported brands,” added Candace Rowell, percent of the local population regularly istry for the various services it tap water in the country.