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ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Tuesday 29 October 2013 24 Dhul-Hijja 1434 - Volume 18 Number 5867 Price: QR2 Barwa Bank PSG stay sees sharp unbeaten after rise in profit 2-2 draw Business | 21 Sport | 29 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir visits Bahrain Mass wedding Limited port in Yemen backed by Father Emir capacity hits SANA’A: In keeping with an Emiri gesture of the Father Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and under the patronage of Yemeni President Abdo Rabu Mansour Hadi, the food supply 4th Orphan’s Mass Wedding 2013 will be held on Thursday in the capital Sana’a and a number Building materials also held up of Yemeni provinces. The mass wedding will be held DOHA: Importers are battling The pressure was particularly under the supervision of the heavy odds as they say they can- on the import of foodstuff (since Orphan Development Foundation. not meet the increasing demand the population has been increas- The largest mass wed- for foodstuff and construction ing) and raw materials used in the ding in Qatar and the region materials due to slow clearance booming construction industry, comes in the context of devel- by Doha Port. he said. opmental support provided The port being old has a lim- Businessman Ali Hassan Al by the country to Yemen in ited ship and container handling Khalaf said that goods clearance various spheres. Assistant Foreign capacity, so import volumes can- procedures are time-consuming Minister for International not be increased. Also, the cus- since several agencies are involved Cooperation H E Sheikh Ahmed toms clearance procedures are in the process. bin Mohammed bin Jabor Al time-consuming, they claim. The Customs Department, Thani said: “This Mass Wedding The result is huge wastage, Environment Ministry and the of orphans has several develop- especially of fresh and perishable public health authorities are mental dimensions, primarily food products, and rising prices. involved in the clearing process. psychological stability for this The Qatar Chamber, represent- The result of the delay in The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani being welcomed by H M King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of category of the society.” QNA ative body of the private sector, releasing the imported goods is Bahrain in Manama yesterday. See also page 2 has, thus, urged the port authori- that food items, especially, are ties to take steps so it can handle spoiled in large quantities, he said. more ships and speed up goods It is tragic that importers have clearance. to face such odds at a time so many “We have suggested that ware- mega infrastructure development Welfare system unsustainable: Kuwait PM houses be built so the (food) con- projects are being launched in the tainers can be taken directly country, he hinted. there instead of leaving them in Al Khalaf said that the various KUWAIT: Kuwait’s prime “It is necessary for Kuwaiti subsidies system, as suggested The government’s four-year open space in the port premises,” state agencies also levy fees on the minister has called the coun- society to transform from a con- by the finance minister earlier programme says that if spend- said Mohamed bin Ahmed Tawar importers and that pushes up the try’s welfare system unsus- sumer of the nation’s resources to this month. Like other wealthy ing continues to rise at the cur- Al Kuwari. cost of goods. Another business- tainable and said the major oil a producer,” he said, according to Gulf Arab countries, Kuwait does rent rate, Kuwait will have a real Al Kuwari, who is the Vice- man, Kazim Al Ansari, said that producer needs to cut spending excerpts published in local media not tax earnings and provides a budget deficit by 2021, something Chairman of the Chamber, said Doha Port can only handle two and the consumption of its nat- yesterday. generous welfare system for its which “threatens national and this was the only solution to ships at a time. “The third ship ural resources. The International Monetary citizens. All residents, including social security and the stability tackle the problem of congestion must remain anchored as long as In some of the strongest com- Fund (IMF) and other Kuwaiti foreigners, benefit from subsi- of the country”. at the container yard at the port. unloading of these two vessels is ments yet from a senior gov- officials, including the finance dised petrol, cheap electricity The government seeks to According to him, delay in going on,” he said. ernment official on Kuwait’s minister, have repeatedly warned and water, while Kuwaiti nation- “rationalise” subsidies to make goods clearance is mainly due to a Businessman Ghassan Al rising spending bill, Sheikh Jaber against rising government spend- als get extra support for housing sure they reach people who lack of space for containers at the Salem said that the New Doha Al Mubarak Al Sabah said a ing in OPEC member Kuwait, one and food. need help the most, local media port. “With so many mega devel- Port, which is under construc- “transformation” was needed to of the world’s richest nations per Generous spending pro- said, citing the government pro- opment projects being launched tion at a huge outlay between avoid future problems. capita. grammes are often cited by ana- gramme, adding that the annual and the population of the coun- Al Wakra and Mesaieed, is “The current welfare state that Government spending may lysts as one of the reasons why subsidies bill had reached more try surging literally by the day, expected to be ready only by 2016. Kuwaitis are used to is unsustain- soon exceed oil revenues. the region has largely escaped than KD5bn ($17.7bn). The gov- imports have been rising fever- “Only then can we expect able,” he said in the introduction Sheikh Jaber has tended to Arab Spring-style unrest, with ernment has said previously that ishly due to increasing demand,” importers’ woes to end,” said to a government programme sent keep out of the debate, but his citizens accepting some political any changes to the subsidies sys- Al Kuwari told local daily Al Raya Al Salem. to lawmakers ahead of the open- comments suggest that the gov- and social curbs in return for a tem would not hurt Kuwaitis on in remarks published yesterday. THE PENINSULA ing of parliament today. ernment could review the costly comfortable life. low incomes. REUTERS On the move Plans for green 11 killed as storm rips ACs shelved DOHA: The Ministry of through northern Europe Environment has indefinitely shelved plans to ban air condi- LONDON: At least 11 people Winds reached 159 kilome- tioners that do not meet Qatari were killed yesterday as a fierce tres per hour on the Isle of standards on energy conserva- storm tore across northern Wight off the southern English tion. The Ministry said yester- Europe, causing mass disrup- coast, according to Britain’s Met day that the decision has been tion to transport. Office national weather centre, put on hold for an “indefinite Four people were killed in while more than 500,000 homes period” following requests by an Britain and three in Germany in Britain and France were left international company for more as heavy rain and high winds without power. time to manufacture sufficient battered the region. The storm Heavy rain and winds of 80 quantities of air conditioners also claimed two victims in The mph elsewhere brought down meeting the Qatari standards. Netherlands, one in France and thousands of trees and left hun- Some more time will be needed one in Denmark. dreds of passengers trapped in to test the new air conditioners Rough conditions at sea also planes at Copenhagen airport. to make sure that they work forced rescuers to abandon the In Britain, a 17-year-old girl smoothly, Qatar News Agency search for a 14-year-old boy who died after a tree fell on the parked said yesterday quoting a state- disappeared while playing in the caravan where she was sleeping, ment by the Laboratories and surf on a southern English beach while a 51-year-old father of three Standardisation Department at on Sunday. died when a tree hit his car, police the Ministry. THE PENINSULA British Prime Minister David said. Some 460,000 homes lost Adel Abdessemed’s five-meter tall “Coup de Tête” sculpture being moved to Mathaf Museum from the Cameron described the loss of life power across Britain. AFP Corniche yesterday. (ABDUL BASIT) as “hugely regrettable”. See also page 12 Today’s edition of The Peninsula Baby girl in France found living inside car boot includes TERRASSON: France was a garage in Terrasson, in central suffering from delayed growth her 40-year-old partner were The couple had three other Health and Fitness in shock yesterday after the France. Police said one of the and mental problems. arrested and charged on Sunday children — a four-year-old girl discovery of an underfed and mechanics heard “bizarre noises, The girl “was hidden, it seems with child abuse and endangering and two boys aged nine and 10 — Special Supplement dehydrated baby girl who had like moans” coming from the car since birth, and more seriously, a minor. The two are facing up to who were handed over to social 1 been forced to live in a car boot, boot and opened it to discover the she is suffering from significant 10 years in prison. services following their parents’ apparently since birth. girl, who was naked, lying in her (developmental) delays,” local The mother told police that arrest.