ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 3 Business | 17 Sport | 25 SCH to assess Zad Holding to Superb Serena environmental up production Williams wins impact on health capacity by 22 eighth Miami of mother, child. percent. crown. MONDAY 6 APRIL 2015 • 17 Jumada II 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6392 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Qatar win volleyball gold Nigeria frees Rogue Nepal Al Jazeera journalists DOHA: Two Al Jazeera televi- sion journalists who had been recruiters to detained by the Nigerian mili- tary since March 24 have been freed, the broadcaster said in a statement yesterday. Ahmed Idris and Ali Mustafa, both Nigerians, have been allowed be punished to leave the Maiduguri hotel where they were detained and return to the network’s Abuja office. Qatar needs more workers: Minister “We’re pleased for Ahmed and DOHA: Qatar and Nepal have mulling providing life insurance Ali that their ordeal is over,” said vowed to punish manpower cover to Nepalese workers. Salah Negm, director of news for agencies in the Himalayan Gurung said at a press confer- Al Jazeera English. “They’re look- nation if they illegally charge ence after meeting Al Khulaifi ing forward to spending some time Qatar-bound Nepalese workers that Qatar and Nepal had vowed with their families and loved ones. money. to clamp down on manpower agen- I know that both of them want to Qatar said categorically yester- cies that illegally took money from thank everyone that helped secure day that its laws did not permit Qatar-bound Nepalese workers. their release, including NGOs, foreigners hired to work to pay a He said Nepalese manpower politicians and fellow journalists,” single penny in the process. agencies charged workers bound Negm added. All expenses involved in hiring a for Qatar anything between The pair were detained in the foreign worker are paid by Qatari Rs70,000 and Rs100,000 (QR1 is northeast, where troops were bat- companies, said Qatar, adding that equivalent to Rs27.51). tling Boko Haram militants. it needs more migrant workers for “It is illegal. We will blacklist Action during the volleyball final between Qatar A and Oman B in the GCC Beach Games, at Al Gharafa Club AFP the 2022 FIFA World Cup projects. those manpower companies that yesterday. Qatar won the gold medal. See also page 28 “Our law requires Qatari com- charge money from Qatar-bound panies to pay for everything to Nepalese workers,” the minister hire migrant workers and anyone was quoted as saying. who does not abide will be pun- He added that Qatari compa- ished,” said Qatar’s Minister of nies that hired migrant workers Labour and Social Affairs. paid for everything — from their Changes to traffic law on the cards H E Dr Abdullah bin Saleh visa fee to air ticket. Al Khulaifi told reporters in Al Khulaifi reiterated at the DOHA: Car owners putting designed to discourage bad driving. their and others’ safety on the will be deducted from the sale pro- Kathmandu on the second day of news conference that Qatari laws stickers on their vehicles offer- The drivers would be sent to the roads, rather than on punitive ceeds of the car and the remaining his four-day official visit to Nepal: required that companies hiring ing them for sale and leav- rehabilitation centre only once a action for violations. amount will be given to the owner. “All hiring and travel expenses for migrant workers bear all expenses ing them in public places like year if they cross the ceiling, to Overtaking from the right side, If the proceeds are less than the migrant workers are borne by our or face the music. grounds, parking lots or by the be fixed by the traffic authorities. breaching the speed limit and dues, legal measures will be taken companies”. The online newspaper nepal- roadside may soon have to seek A draft law is awaiting approval jumping a red light will continue if the owner fails to pay the dif- Al Khulaifi earlier met Nepal’s times.com said, citing a report by written permission from the by the Advisory Council and it to be breaches that will need more ference, local Arabic daily Al Raya Minister of State for Labour Nepal’s Department of Foreign authorities. carries extensive amendments to deterrent punishment. reported. and Employment, Tek Bahadur Employment, that there were Automobile showrooms as well five articles (Articles 1, 2, 41, 82 The draft law also seeks to fix The draft allows new cars to Gurung, after meeting Foreign over 400,000 Nepalese workers in as auctioneers using open grounds and 89) of the existing traffic law the rent for desert motorcycles be issued road permits for three Minister Mahendra Bahadur Qatar. or roadsides to park cars for dis- (Law No. 19 of 2007). and buggies that are rented out years. The year of expiry of the Pandey, Qatar News Agency In his meetings with Nepalese play and sale will also need permis- The law is being amended to to picnickers in areas like Sealine, permit will be prominently men- (QNA) reported. officials, Al Khulaifi promised that sion from the traffic department keep pace with the growing popu- for instance. tioned on its number plate. “Talks during the meeting (with Qatar will ensure good living and to do so once a law that is in the lation of people and vehicles. The traffic authorities will not The traffic department would Gurung) dealt with key topics of working conditions, occupational offing sees the light of day. Fines for violations related to be responsible for damage to a car also license and monitor car show- mutual interest,” QNA said. safety and “life insurance for Also, plans are afoot to set up parking might be substantially being seized and will have the right rooms, garages and car decorators Citing details, nepaltimes.com Nepalese migrant workers”. rehabilitation centres for errant reduced in the new law, which will to auction the car if its owner does and the rules will be part of execu- reported that Al Khulaifi said that Continued on page 4 drivers who breach a certain ceil- focus on making drivers aware of not reclaim it after paying the rel- tive regulations to be issued later. among other things, Qatar was THE PENINSULA ing in the demerit points system its provisions and of the need for evant fines or arrears. The dues THE PENINSULA Dust returns Full-fledged paediatric GCC national jailed for fighting hospital to be set up with police DOHA: There is a plan to set The proposed paediatric hospital DOHA: A Criminal Court has up a full-fledged paediatric hos- will have an emergency unit on sentenced a young GCC national pital in Qatar that will even- the ground floor and an inpatient to a year and three months in jail tually replace the Paediatric unit on the upper floor, Al Amri and fined her QR18,000 for fight- Emergency Center (PEC) in said in an interview with local ing with a police officer, insult- Al Sadd, a senior official has Arabic daily Al Arab. ing a taxi driver and disturbing disclosed. He said the expansion and others while in a drunken state. The proposed hospital is renovation under way at the Al The court sentenced her in expected to address space con- Sadd facility will be completed absentia to 15 months in jail and straints at the Al Sadd facility in July this year. The existing fined her QR10,000 for fight- by bringing together emergency premises will be linked to the ing with a police officer on duty, and inpatient services under one new facilities that are expected imposed a QR5,000 fine for dis- roof, according to Dr Mohammed to become operational by the end turbing people after consuming Hammoud Al Amri, PEC’s dep- of this year. liquor, and a QR3,000 fine for uty director. The expansion will increase abusing a taxi driver. He said the crowding was the capacity of the emergency The convict left the country caused mainly by a shortage of unit by 25 to 30 percent. before the trial began. A summons beds at hospitals that are sup- Continued on page 4 was sent to her recent address but Towers in West Bay as seen through a haze of dust after Doha was lashed by strong winds accompanied by dust posed to admit long-stay patients. THE PENINSULA she did not appear in the Court, yesterday. Poor horizontal visibility is expected today as well due to the same weather conditions. BAHER AMIN Al Raya reported. Details of the case suggest that the convict, after consuming some alcohol in a hotel, took a cab. She differed with the driver on the fare and began abusing him. The cab Yemen rebels ready for talks, advance in Aden driver called Al Fazaa personnel, whose car was parked nearby. The ADEN: Yemeni rebels made adviser to President Abdrabuh oversee the dialogue,” Sammad committees” militiamen loyal to heart of which sits on an extinct two police officers in the patrol new gains in the battleground Mansur Hadi, also said that said. President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi, volcano jutting out into the sea. vehicle approached the woman. southern city Aden yesterday as Yemenis rejected the return of The coalition kept up its night- who has fled to Saudi Arabia. The rebels also fired mortar She was drunk and tried to run a Saudi-led coalition trying to Hadi, who escaped to Saudi Arabia time raids against rebel positions The rebels bombarded residen- rounds at an Aden television sta- away, at which one of the police halt their advance faced grow- after Shia Houthi fighters edged and arms depots, particularly tial areas, setting fire to several tion loyal to Hadi, forcing it off officers made her sit in the back ing calls for a humanitarian closer to his southern base of Aden around the capital Sana’a and buildings and damaging others, the air.