www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS | 17 SPORT | 21 All eyes on Yellen MotoGP: Leaderr to provide clarity Marquez tops Czechzech on rate hike plan practice in Brnoo SATURDAY 20 AUGUST 2016 • 17 DHUL QA’DA 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6894 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Rousing welcome for Barshim at Bayt Qatar Emir congratulates Health & safety President of Afghanistan practitioners in DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to President of Afghanistan, Dr. Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, on high demand his country’s Independence Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Interior yesterday. He was speaking on the Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin sidelines of the inaugural ‘PHASE Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also Based on the Construction Occupational Safety sent cables to President Dr. Ghani. Philippine Overseas and Health Summit’ — a major high- Employment light of the year-round programme of the organisation which marks its Social security Administration 10th anniversary this year. Thousands of Filipino safety website, there are practitioners have benefited from beneficiaries up hundreds of job PHASE’s training programmes. orders from Qatar “There are lots of success sto- DOHA: Data from the Ministry ries. You will be surprised how of Development Planning and in the field of health these people progressed from simple Statistics shows that the number and safety. employees to safety supervisors and of social security beneficiaries assistant safety managers while some increased in June to 12, 969 from are working with consultants with 12, 315 in May. The number in April Qatar’s star high jumper Mutaz Ezza Barshim is given a rousing welcome by citizens of Qatar and bigger salaries because of what they was 12,223 and 12,516 in March. By Raynald C Rivera have learned and applied through Brazil as he arrives at Bayt Qatar at Rio yesterday. Barshim won Qatar’s first Olympic silver medal Social security in the first six The Peninsula various programmes of the organisa- after clearing 2.36m on Tuesday. → Report on page 2 months of this year amounted to tion. There are thousands of Filipino QR453,849, Al Sharq reports. safety practitioners in Qatar, includ- ing around 4,000 who are members DOHA: There is an increasing of our organisation,” he said. demand for health and safety prac- The number could further titioners in Qatar as the country increase with the thousands of visas Turkey detains 18 cabinet staff in coup probe witnesses a huge boom in the con- available for Filipinos who would opt struction sector, says an expert. to seek employment in Qatar. “The Leo S Dote, President, Philip- ambassador and I recently met Min- pine Association of Safety Engineers ister for Administrative Development, Reuters 40,000 people in its investigation Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet targets close to Erdogan. (PHASE) – Qatar, said with the huge Labour and Social Affairs H E Dr. Issa into the putsch it says was orches- Simsek said the government was in Authorities also detained dozens demand in the field which promises Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi and he said trated by US-based Muslim cleric talks with banks to cut off funding to of academics and issued 145 arrest higher pay, some decide to shift their there are 77,000 visas available for Fethullah Gulen. He denies the firms linked to Gulen. “The cutting warrants for university staff in oper- career paths towards a job in health Filipinos,” said David Des T Dicang, ANKARA: Turkish authorities yester- charges. off of terror financing... is critical,” he ations focused on Istanbul University and safety. Labour Attaché at the Embassy. day detained 18 cabinet employees The detentions were part of a told broadcaster TRT Haber. “We are and Konya in central Turkey. “There is an increase in demand “We are happy that the host on orders of the Ankara Public Pros- joint investigation by the Ankara talking about a few hundred compa- At Istanbul University, 44 aca- for safety practitioners and at the country appreciates the hard work ecutor’s Office as part of a probe into police department into anti-smug- nies, this is not enough to impact the demics were held and their rooms same time the recognition and of Filipinos,” Dicang told the sum- the July 15 defeated coup. gling and organised crime and the economy seriously.” and homes were being searched. value for Filipinos in the field has mit. Based on the Philippine Overseas Dozens of bank inspectors and Ankara Public Prosecutor’s Office, The 29 bank inspectors were Another 18 of their colleagues were increased. Not all of us in PHASE Employment Administration website, academics were also held as the gov- state-run Anadolu Agency said. from the BDDK watchdog and held set to be detained. Prosecutors in are safety practitioners, there are there are hundreds of job orders from ernment vowed to cut off financing to Prime Ministry experts are on suspicion of making “irregular” Konya issued arrest warrants for those who shifted careers to health Qatar in the field of health and safety. companies suspected of having ties among the suspects, who will be investigations into the account of a 83 academics, of whom 29 were and safety with the higher pay, to the failed coup. referred to the court after completing government-related foundation and detained in an operation stretching they get,” Dote told The Peninsula → Continued on page 2 Turkey has detained some procedures at the police department. those of business people, including across 17 provinces. New civil defence Complaints by three centre in Al Wakrah Russian cruise missiles target Aleppo to open next year people must to register BEIRUT: Russian warships in the The Peninsula Mediterranean Sea fired cruise missiles at targets near Aleppo yes- food poisoning cases terday, a further sign of Moscow’s DOHA: A new civil defence centre broadening military effort in Syria under construction in Al Wakrah is days after it began to fly bombing By Sidi Mohamed will report to the authorities, so the expected to open during the second missions from an airbase in Iran. The Peninsula restaurant removes the meal before quarter of next year. Russian air power had helped inspectors arrive,” he said, adding The total area of the centre is Syrian President Bashar Al Assad consumers should report about food around 130,00 square meters. The make steady advances against rebels violations secretly. three-storey building will have a car seeking to oust him since Moscow’s DOHA: Some people, who experi- Zaidan said most complaints park in its basement within a space intervention a year ago, but a recent ence stomach pain after eating at involved hair strands or other things of 5,000 square meters, and other insurgent advance in Aleppo has restaurants, fear about food poison- found in food. facilities, including a building for checked that momentum. ing as the number of such cases rises “Our inspection campaign maintenance, Al Sharq reports. Russia’s three cruise missile during summer months. is continuing. Four days ago, we The centre is part of projects being launches were its first against However, Majeed Borhan caught a shop selling expired sweets developed in Al Wakrah and other targets in Syria from the Mediter- Zaidan, Head, Health Control Sec- and measures to be undertaken are new civil defence centres across the ranean, with previous ones made tion, Al Rayyan Municipality, said being decided.” country. from its Caspian Sea fleet. food poisoning cases in the munic- He advised people not to leave The Ministry of Interior’s General Russia’s Defence Ministry said ipality area were not many and all fresh food, particularly meat, in the Directorate of Logistics and Supplies the strikes targeted the Islam- complaints did not mean there was car for a long time. signed a contract in June last year ist militant group Jabhat Fatah Al food poisoning. “Some people complain that with Nawras Engineering Company -Sham, known as the Nusra Front “A minimum of three people they bought meat with foul smell for the construction of the centre in until it broke formal ties with Al should have eaten the same food at but they had left it in their car for, Al Wakrah. Qaeda last month before play- the same time to complain, other- maybe, two or three hours. Such ing a big role in the sudden rebel A rocket being launched from a Russian corvette in the Mediterranean wise we can’t say it is a case of food food should be stored properly. advances in Aleppo. Sea at Jabhat Fateh Al Sham militant targets in Syria. poisoning,” he explained. As soon as they reach home, they The upsurge in fighting and air- He said the municipality was should keep such food in the refrig- strikes in and around the city, split receiving complaints of food poi- erator as room temperature will between government-held west Fiercest clashes between rebels including strikes in Aleppo that soning when in fact most were cases spoil it.” MEDAL STANDINGS and rebel-held eastern sectors, has and the Syrian army and allied destroyed a tank, a vehicle loaded of stomach pain. On Eid Al-Adha preparations, Countries G S B T prompted growing international militias were continuing in the with ammunition and three mortar A complaint lodged by only one Zaidan said they are planning to concern, galvanised by pictures southwest of Aleppo, the UK-based emplacements, and killed dozens person cannot be taken into account increase the number of veterinari- United States 37 34 32 103 on Thursday of a dazed, bloodied Syrian Observatory for Human of rebel fighters, a military source and made as basis to take action ans at Al Rayyan abattoirs who will Great Britain 23 21 13 57 boy, Omran.