ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 1 December 2013 27 Moharram 1435 - Volume 18 Number 5900 Price: QR2 QE index rose Qatar unveils by 5.46 percent first women’s in November cycling team Business | 17 Sport | 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Crackdown Emir attends Gulf Camel Racing Tournament OPINION Who will be the next on manpower DCMF head? ESTERDAY, there was news in the social suppliers Ymedia and in Al Sharq newspaper that the services of Mr Jan Ministry cancels 14 licences Keulen, the Director DOHA: The Ministry of Labour of job-related complaints from of Doha and Social Affairs has termi- employees. According an official, Centre nated the licences of several a majority of the disputes — about for Media manpower agencies for recruit- 85 percent — are settled amica- Freedom ing housemaids and offering bly, through discussions with the (DCMF), them for jobs on part-time basis. employers. had been A senior official of the Ministry About 15 percent of the cases termi- Khalid Al Sayed has disclosed that the licences of are referred to the court, accord- nated. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 14 recruiting agencies have been ing to Saleh Saeed Al Shawi, Jan had cancelled until now for various head of the Labour Relations replaced Mr Robert Ménard, types of violations. A major viola- Department at the ministry. The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at the Third Gulf Camel Racing Tournament at Al Shahaniya who also did not complete the tion was supplying housemaids for During the first six months of camel race track yesterday. Qatar topped the championship with 24 medals including six gold, eight silver mission of the centre which part-time jobs on condition that this year, the ministry received and 10 bronze, followed by the UAE, Oman, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. was opened in October 2008. they are to be paid on hourly basis. a total of 4,776 job-related com- The objective of the centre is Manpower agencies are not plaints and of these 3,667 were to promote media freedom permitted to do this, Al Sharq settled amicably. A total of 300 in the region, and work for said, quoting Fawaz Al Rees, cases were referred to the court the right to freedom of opin- director of the Recruitment while some of the complaints were ion and expression for all, as Department at the Ministry. Only withdrawn later. enshrined in the Universal cleaning companies can employ Al Shawi said most of the Egypt panel okays half of statute Declaration of Human Rights. workers on such conditions, said complaints were from construc- After five years, the Qatari the official. tion workers and were related to CAIRO: An Egyptian panel said 138 articles were approved other main article approved was society is still in the dark Recently, there were reports denial of their basic rights such approved yesterday more than yesterday. one forbidding the formation of about the role of this centre about several private companies as salaries, allowances and air half of the articles of a new con- After the army ousted Mursi religious parties or parties based and how it can contribute to recruiting housemaids from dif- tickets. stitution aimed at paving the in July, Egypt’s interim rulers on religious grounds. media freedom here except ferent countries and providing The statistics do not reflect an way for a return to elected rule suspended the 2012 constitu- This is expected to have con- in the form of organising a them to Qatari and non-Qatari increase in the number of com- after July’s military ouster of tion, which had been hastily sequences for the Freedom roundtable discussion or jour- households mostly for day time plaints compared to last year, president Mohammed Mursi. drafted during his year in power and Justice Party, the politi- nalism training for students jobs on hourly basis. when the Ministry received a If adopted in full, the charter by a panel dominated by Mursi’s cal arm of the banned Muslim in Qatari schools. The stern action follows a con- total of 8,668 complaints over 12 will be put to a popular refer- Islamist allies. The roadmap stip- Brotherhood, most of whose Many Qataris believe this tinuous evaluation of manpower months. Of these, 6517 disputes endum early next year in the ulates that a referendum on the top leaders including Mursi are centre did not play any mean- agencies in the country launched were settled amicably and 649 first milestone of the military- constitution be held by the end behind bars since July. ingful role in the local media by the Ministry last year. cases were referred to the court. installed government’s transi- of the year, but officials have said “A party can have a religious and in enhancing freedom of Earlier in March, the Ministry The Ministry has set up offices tion roadmap, to be followed by it is now expected in the second identity, but it has to abide by expression in the country, as announced termination of licenses across the country to receive presidential and parliamentary half of January. laws, the constitution and the a result of which it was focus- of 10 manpower agencies recruit- complaints from workers. Job- elections in mid-2014. Articles approved yesterday Egyptian civil state,” panel chief ing more on training or func- ing housemaids for various viola- related complaints can be lodged Voting on the 247 articles began included one stipulating that Amr Mussa, who once headed tioning as a learning centre. tions and another four companies at Ministry’s offices in Al Muntaza, yesterday with 48 members of the Islamic Shariah law will be the the Arab League and served as The centre was busy focus- are now added to this list. Industrial Area, Al Khor, Al 50-member panel present, and is main source of legislation as was Mubarak’s foreign minister, said. ing on other countries and Meanwhile, the Ministry Ruwais, Al Rayyan and Al Wakra. to resume today afternoon, state the case during the regime of top- AFP did such things as sending continues to receive a number THE PENINSULA news agency Mena reported. It pled ruler Hosni Mubarak. The See also page 6 a letter to the President of Somalia expressing concern over the perceived repres- sion of journalists, or writing to the Egyptian authorities to express concern over the Currency DCMF chief sacked arrest of some prominent investigative journalist, or DOHA: The Director of the Doha Centre for to Syrian authorities call- Media Freedom (DCMF), Jan Keulen, has been ing for the release of some ring busted released from his position, Al Sharq reported yes- cartoonists. terday. The Arabic daily said that DCMF is now The blame for all this should looking for a replacement for Keulan, who took not go to Mr Jan but let us after tip-off charge of the Centre in April 2011. hope the mission and objective An official from DCMF told this newspaper last of this centre will be clearly DOHA: The Preventive evening that Keulen was still in Doha and that details laid out so that the new direc- Security Department at the about the changes in the administration would be tor knows what he has to do. Ministry of Interior (MoI) has released today. We want the centre to play a arrested a three-member crim- The board of governors of DCMF is administered bigger role in the local media inal gang of African nationality by 12 prominent media figures, according to DCMF and more Qataris need to for committing fraud. website. The Centre also has an Advisory Council work with the centre because The Department received a comprising 10 people, including political figures, they have a better understand- tip-off about suspicious individu- human rights activists, academics and journalists. ing of the system and know the als who were meeting people in THE PENINSULA challenges ahead. hotels and other public places THE PENINSULA where they told them that they could convert foreign currencies and double their money. A young Syrian drinks water from a tank outside a tent at a refugee camp in Qushtapa on the An adhoc team was formed by China flies jets outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq’s Kurdistan region, yesterday. the Department to investigate FIFPro meets Q22 officials and gather information about in disputed zone the individuals and to determine DOHA: FIFPro, the body that represents profes- Plan to destroy Syria weapons at sea their identities. BEIJING: China scrambled sional football players around the globe, and local After taking necessary legal fighter jets to investigate US football officials including those from Qatar 2022 THE HAGUE: The United States will Damascus. OPCW spokesman Michael measures, an ambush was pre- and Japanese aircraft flying Supreme Committee have carried out ‘engaging’ destroy the most dangerous of Syria’s Luhan yesterday declined to name the pared to arrest the suspects through its new air defence talks on players rights, it emerged yesterday. chemical weapon stockpile on a ship at navy vessel to be used. A final plan for the red-handed where the offi- zone over the East China Sea Mada Oland, Board Member of FIFpro, met with sea, the world’s chemical watchdog said. destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons — cials also seized fake US dol- as the clamour over the dis- Q22 and Qatar Football Association (QFA) officials. “I “The neutralisation operations will be con- on land or at sea — is due to be approved lars and euros, in addition to puted airspace escalated.