Proposal Aims to Force Expats to Leave Kuwait to Claim Indemnity
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SHAABAN 20, 1440 AH THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2019 Max 30º 28 Pages Min 16º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17816 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net EPA details widespread Invasion of influencers as Asian champions Kashima stunned, 422environmental violations Pak launches tourism push 28 Lopes fires Jeonbuk towards last 16 Proposal aims to force expats to leave Kuwait to claim indemnity Constitutional court rejects petitions against elections • MP wants citizenship issue investigated By A Saleh and B Izzak National Assembly. The sources said the issue of impos- Amir praises role of teachers in society KUWAIT: Informed sources said the ing fees and taxes will not be discussed government told the National Assembly because it could affect citizens, and this it has agreed to hold a government-par- is rejected by the parliament, adding that liamentary meeting to decide on a leg- MPs demanded a strong government islative plan to deal with the population stand towards the residency (iqama) structure and issue several executive trade, which is the basis of the imbalance measures on iqama trafficking and in the population structure. They said Kuwaitization. The sources added that MPs and the government could decide the two authorities are on agreement on on the process of correcting the popula- a proposal that an expat must provide a tion structure before the end of this year, document proving that they are leaving starting with stopping employment of the country to receive their indemnity if expats in government bodies on an ad they are terminated or resign from their hoc basis. jobs in the public or private sector. The sources said the ministries are The plan also envisaged stopping full of hundreds of expats who are granting licenses for some professions employed in this manner, which creates and dealing with some communities inflated employment in ministries and whose numbers have grown too much. hinders the employment of Kuwaitis, The sources said it was agreed to hold especially in administrative jobs. They KUWAIT: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah attends a ceremony to honor distinguished teachers and schools yesterday. In the meeting during the month of said the coming period will witness his speech, the Amir praised teachers’ high status in the society and expressed appreciation for the role they play in raising generations and Ramadan, and it will include agreeing on intervention by the Civil Service developing education and knowledge. — KUNA (See Page 3) the plan and the legislations it requires Commission and the Audit Bureau to be eventually presented to the Continued on Page 24 News in brief the sale of our oil,” Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Iran FM warns Zarif said at the Asia Society in New York, where he WHO: One-hour was participating in a UN session. “But if the United Emirati wakes up after 27 years in coma States takes the crazy measure of trying to prevent us US over Hormuz from doing that, then it should be prepared for the con- max screen time DUBAI: An Emirati woman opened her eyes and sequences,” he said. regained consciousness after spending 27 years in a NEW YORK: Iran’s foreign minister yesterday warned The United States, which is closely allied with Arab daily for under-5s coma induced by a serious brain injury, her family the United States of unspecified “consequences” if it tried states in the Gulf, has had years of small-scale naval said yesterday. Munira Omar was 32 when she was to seal off to Tehran the Strait of Hormuz, the strategic confrontations with Iran, which has occasionally threat- injured in a road traffic accident in 1991 after picking ened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint GENEVA: Young children should not spend more than passage into the oil-rich Gulf. President Donald Trump’s an hour a day watching television and videos or playing up her son Omar from school in the city of Al-Ain. administration has been ramping up pressure on the cler- through which 20 percent of the world’s oil flows. “It is computer games and infants less than one year old Omar survived - and lived to see his mother awake ical state, this week vowing to stop all oil exports from in our vital national security interest to keep the Persian should not be exposed to electronic screens at all, the again decades later in a hospital bed in Germany. She Iran by sanctioning any countries that defy its order. Gulf open, to keep the Strait of Hormuz open. We have World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday. The woke up in May, but her family chose to keep the “We believe Iran will continue to sell its oil, we will done that in the past and we will continue to do that in news under wraps out of respect for her privacy. Now continue to find buyers for our oil and we will continue the future,” Zarif said. United Nations agency, issuing its first such guidelines, 60, Munira is in a stable condition and is now home in to use the Strait of Hormuz as a safe transit passage for Continued on Page 24 said under-fives should also be physically active and the UAE, after being enrolled in a physical rehabilita- get adequate sleep to help develop good lifelong habits tion program, with her family nearby, according to and prevent obesity and other diseases in later life. Omar, now 32. — AFP “What we are cautioning on is over-use of those elec- Lanka Muslims tronic screen times with young children,” WHO expert Dr Fiona Bull told a news briefing. In its guidelines to member states, the WHO said fear backlash children between one and four years old should spend Saudis release maids on death row at least three hours in a variety of physical activities after bombings spread throughout the day. Infants under one should JAKARTA: Two Indonesian domestic workers interact in floor-based play and avoid all screens, it sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft said. Being inactive is fueling a rise in the numbers of against their employers’ families in Saudi Arabia COLOMBO: Mohamed Hasan has barely left his home in Colombo since a string of deadly blasts hit Sri Lanka obese or overweight people worldwide, the WHO said. returned home yesterday after their sentences Excessive weight can lead to premature death from were commuted, Indonesia’s foreign ministry said. on Sunday, afraid he could be attacked because he is Muslim. He has a job at a printing press, but the 41- heart disease, diabetes, hypertension and some forms of Sumartini and Warnah arrived in Jakarta after COLOMBO: Members of the Sri Lankan Muslim community year-old’s family have begged him to stay home. “They cancer. “Preventing these deaths needs to start in very serving more than 10 years in a Saudi prison, gather outside a mosque after prayers on Tuesday. — AFP early life,” Bull said. Lalu Muhammad Iqbal, a senior official at the are worried that if I go out, will I be able to come back alive?” he told AFP outside the Jumma mosque in One in three adults today are overweight or obese, ministry, told AFP. Sumartini was accused of and one in four adults does not do enough physical making the 17-year-old son of her employer van- Dematagoda, where he had ventured briefly to pray. 60, said she had barely slept since the weekend. “I More than 350 people were killed in the carnage know people are angry at Muslims,” she said in tears activity, she said. “In this age group of under 5s, it is ish by using black magic, although he was later currently 40 million children around the world (who) found alive. Warnah, meanwhile, was accused of unleashed by the Easter attacks against churches and outside the mosque. “Infants being carried in the arms are overweight. Of that (figure) 50 percent are in Africa casting a spell against her employer’s first wife hotels, which have been claimed by the Islamic State of their mothers were killed. “I never imagined such and the southeast Asia region,” Bull said. That translates that made her suffer from mysterious illnesses, group. The deaths have horrified Sri Lankans and been hatred being there in the hearts of these people (who into 5.9 percent of children globally. Indonesian media reported. —AFP condemned by Muslim groups, but many in the commu- attacked). Hatred must not sow more hatred.” nity have been left feeling vulnerable. Zareena Begum, Continued on Page 24 Continued on Page 24 2 Established 1961 Local Thursday, April 25, 2019 His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with the visiting Commander of US Central Command Marine Corps Gen Kenneth F McKenzie Jr. — Amiri Diwan and KUNA photos KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets with National Assembly Chief-of-Staff of Kuwait’s Armed Forces Lt Gen Mohammad Al-Khedhr meets with Italian Chief of the Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem. Defense Staff Lt Gen Enzo Vecciarelli. Amir meets senior officials, Commander of US Central Command Marine Corps Kuwaiti top brass meets Italian, US senior officials KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- which they discussed a number of issues of common Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah met National Assembly interest. According to a statement by Defense Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem at Bayan Palace yes- Ministry, the two sides also addressed most impor- terday. His Highness the Amir also received Acting tant issues concerning bilateral military cooperation Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Acting and ways to improve them.