ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 5 Business | 17 Sport | 28 QRC office in Kahramaa awards Qatar’s Nasser Turkey provides contracts worth Saleh Al Attiyah aid for Syrian QR17bn for water seals win in refugees. reservoir projects. Kuwait rally. SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2015 • 24 Jumada I 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6370 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar Museum events Weather to be Ministry helps unstable from tomorrow 5,000 expats DOHA: The country is expected to experience unstable weather conditions from tomorrow, for a week, with a rise in temperature and chances of scattered rains, return home according to the Meteorology Department. Light to scattered rains are Amnesty team visits MoI Department expected today as well, with the weather remaining hazy and DOHA: The Ministry of Interior international principles which cloudy. The day time temperature has provided air tickets to more led to the voluntary surrender of during the week could soar up to than 5,000 expatriates held up a number of expatriate workers 29 degrees Celsius. at its Search and Follow-Up who violated the law. Requests by Strong dust winds are also Department to send them back such workers communicating their expected on Tuesday, Wednesday home, a senior official said. interest to return home have been and Thursday. Brig Nasser Mohammed Al entertained by the Department The unstable weather has Sayed, Director of the Department, and they are sent home after com- been attributed to an extension said that the Ministry has come to pleting the necessary procedures. of low pressure in the upper air the rescue of a number of inmates The Amnesty delegation was over the eastern Mediterranean who could not afford to buy an air received by Al Sayed and Brig area. This may result in scattered ticket to go home. Abdullah Saqr Al Mohannadi, head rains. The turbulence could pre- This came during a briefing to of the Human Rights Department Under the guidance of Qatar Museums Chairperson H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, vail until April 22. a delegation from the Amnesty at the Ministry and other sen- Qatar Museums officially launched the new Fire Station building and its Artists in Residence programme as The rise in temperature could International that visited the ior officials. The delegation was well as the inaugural ‘555’ exhibition, in Doha yesterday. The event was attended by Minister of Culture, Arts lead to formation of clouds and Department to know about the told about the various measures thunderstorms. and Heritage H E Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kuwari. See also page 2 living condition of migrant work- being taken by the Department The south-easterly to southerly ers there, the Qatar News Agency to improve the living condition of winds would blow with moderate reported yesterday. “Although we the inmates. An office of the Public to fresh speed gaining momen- receive huge number of people, Prosecution and a court dealing tum from Tuesday turning the they are not being detained finally with residency issues have been weather dusty. as the Ministry has provided air set up at the Department as part THE PENINSULA tickets to more than 5,000 people of the legal procedures. Anti-Houthi alliance formed who were not able to pay for a The delegation toured the Many feared dead ticket to reach their destination,” facilities at the Department SANA’A: Yemeni political forces It also includes dissident south- political parties as Muslim Al Sayed was quoted as saying. which include separate accom- who oppose the Shia militia ern members of the General Brotherhood-linked Al Islah, in Vanuatu cyclone Al Sayed said the Ministry was modations for men and women, that has seized control of Sana’a People’s Congress, the party of hardline Sunni Islamist Al keen to implement the princi- dining hall, hair cutting salon for formed an alliance against it former president Ali Abdullah Rashad and the Nasserist SUVA, FIJI: Super Cyclone ples of the Universal Declaration men, mosque for men and women, yesterday, saying they want Saleh, who is suspected of back- Unionist People’s party. Pam, a maximum category five of Human Rights of the United sports and entertainment facili- to restore state authority and ing the Houthis. It aims to restore Meanwhile, Houthi gunmen storm, smashed into Vanuatu in Nations while dealing with expa- ties, clinic, among others. Only rebuild weakened security forces. state authority and “prevent the attacked the Sana’a office of local the South Pacific with gusts of up triate workers who end up at the 100 people have been put in a block The newly formed National collapse of the army and secu- human rights advocacy group to 320km an hour yesterday and Department. Accordingly, the that can actually accommodate up Salvation Bloc groups Sunni rity forces and rebuild them,” Siraj Development, said a Siraj wreaked widespread devastation. ministry transferred the sponsor- to 150 people, the team was told. Muslim and secular parties, as said a statement after a meeting official. Najla Al Zamari said they The UN had unconfirmed ship of several workers when it The delegation appreciated the well youth groups, tribal alliances in Sana’a. And it criticised “ille- destroyed computers and accused reports of 44 people killed in one was proved that there were sub- facilities and the interest of the and members of the Southern gitimate” measures taken by the staff of “collaborating with foreign province and Vanuatu President ject to abuse by their sponsors. ministry to improve the services Movement, which seeks greater Houthis and rejected the state countries, of “immoral activity” and Baldwin Lonsdale appealed for The Department has adopted at the Department, QNA reported. autonomy for the formerly inde- being controlled by militias. allowing men and women to mix. international help. AFP its procedures in line with the THE PENINSULA pendent south. The bloc includes such major AFP See also page 13 SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Condolences offered for ‘Artists in residence’ launched Al Dari’s death Qatar Museums unveils new Fire Station building and inaugural ‘555’ exhibition AMMAN: H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday con- veyed condolences and consola- DOHA: Qatar Museums (QM) launched in tribute to ‘The Art tion of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim officially launched the new Centre’, the first artist in resi- bin Hamad Al Thani and Father Fire Station building, ‘Artists dence initiative that took place in Emir H H Sheikh Hamad bin in Residence’ programme and Doha in the early 1990s and ran Khalifa Al Thani to the sons the inaugural ‘555’ exhibition for a decade. of the late Dr Sheikh Harith yesterday. Curated by H E Sheikh Hassan Suleiman Al Dari, Chairman, H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint bin Mohammed bin Ali Al Thani, Association of Muslim Scholars Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the exhibition aims to showcase a in Iraq, in Jordanian capital. He Chairperson, QM, was present. pivotal era in the development of also conveyed condolences to the Since 2012, a QM team has arts not only in Qatar, but also the family and members of the clan been working on renovating the region. “Our measure of success of the deceased. old Civil Defence Building (com- as a residency is to see how young monly known as the old Fire artists we support will be able to Qatar chairs rights Station) in preparation for host- ‘fly away into the world’ and be ing the new ‘Artist in Residence’ continuously creative. panel meeting programme. “At the end of their nine It preserved the original façade months, we hope they will have GENEVA: The International to honour the heritage and tradi- developed and honed their artis- Coordinating Committee tions and recycled many features, tic identity and voice and that we of National Human Rights keeping the original integrity of will be able to introduce them to Institutions yesterday held first the building intact. opportunities, contacts and open- in a series of meetings in Geneva. The ‘Artist in Residence’ pro- ings to enable them to manage It was presided over by Dr Ali gramme is scheduled to com- their art, get themselves noticed bin Samikh Al Marri, Chairman, mence in September and will and help cultivate a career,” said National Human Rights Council. continue for nine months. Al Khalifa. The session focused on les- It includes 20 artists from Equipped to host the 20 artists sons learned from the review in various disciplines, including selected to join the Fire Station, The new Fire Station building which is hosting ‘Artists in Residence’ programme and the first ‘555’ exhibition. Geneva of all human rights coun- art, photography, design, archi- the building is home to 24 studios (BELOW) Some of the paintings on display. SALIM MATRAMKOT cils last year. It also discussed tecture, among others. It has and a gallery space for exhibitions the relationship between human received more than 150 applica- and community interaction. rights councils and their gov- tions to date. The programme will Twenty studios will be open to ernments and violence against first be open to Qatari artists and these artists, while four will be women and human trafficking. residents of Qatar and later to reserved for visiting artists. regional artists. The Fire Station will also fea- GCC Awqaf “It’s a great pleasure to wit- ture a park, a library, an arts and ness the opening of the new Fire crafts shop, a cinema, a plaza, and meeting today Station building today. This build- a restaurant to foster an interac- ing has served the community tive environment and engage the DOHA: GCC Awqaf under- very well in the past 30 years and local community.