ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Sunday 23 December 2012 10 Safar 1434 - Volume 17 Number 5557 Price: QR2 GECF plans Alex Cudlin financial collects institution 50 points Business | 21 Sport | 30 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Omanis vote in local polls Qatar to launch Hotel invites Nanny Training Academy in April DOHA: An institute to train controversial women in childcare is set to open in April next year. The Qatar Nanny Training Academy is an initiative of H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser. Ukrainian DJs The academy will seek to con- tribute to human resources devel- opment in Qatar by providing educational and training services Duo Diamonds to perform on Dec 25 in the field of childcare that are in keeping with the country’s Qatari BY ISABEL OVALLE table by paying QR1,000 ($274) and Islamic identity. The academy upfront. will provide courses in fields rang- DOHA: A luxury hotel here Membership cards are issued for ing from hygiene and nutrition to has lined up a show on the the ‘lounge’ for QR100 to women entertaining children and first aid Christmas Day of a pair of and for QR200 to men and they are The academy’s founding com- young Ukrainian women disc valid for six months. To reserve a mittee held a press conference jockeys (DJs) who is known table in the said lounge one must yesterday, which was addressed for semi-nude photo shoots for pay QR1,000 any day of the year. by Rabia Kerzabi, the head of the some of erotic men’s magazines A web search suggests “Duo An Omani woman casts her vote at a polling station in the Al Khaburah district yesterday. Omanis went to the committee, Amal Abdullatif Al published from the West. Diamonds are one of the most polls for the sultanate’s first ever local elections but the 192 councillors to be elected will have only advisory Mannai and Abdul Rahman Al The twosome goes by the name popular and actively performing powers. See also page 13 Mulla, both members of the com- of ‘Duo Diamonds’ and a web girl DJs and have visited over 20 mittee, and Bushra Al Nehaily, search reveals that they play countries”. academic director of the academy. house music and perform with Originally from Kiev, Duo Kerzabi said the academy will scanty clothing. They have per- Diamonds have been on the cover work to attract female students to formed in the UAE and Jordan of a Russian adult magazine ‘XXL’ its 10-month training programme and Qatar is the third Arab and and took part in anniversary cel- Bag disrupts designed to produce qualified nan- Islamic country to be hosting ebrations of Moscow’s FHM mag- Qatar-Bahrain causeway nies for Qatari and Arab house- them. azine, a publication that targets bus services holds. The nannies will earn a The hotel that is organising male audiences. They have also certificate attesting to their abil- the event has promised a ‘vibrant taken part in photo shoots for DOHA: A security threat hoax faces delay, says minister ity to bring up children in keeping night’ with ‘unique and exclusive’ other magazines targeting men at the bus terminal off Grand with Qatari and Islamic traditions. BY JABER AL-HARAMI disc jockeys to its patrons in its such as ‘Guts’ from France and Hamad Street late last evening was actually a move to topple Al Mulla said the strategy under- announcement for Christmas cel- ‘Loaded’ from Ukraine. disrupted Mowasalat bus serv- its monarchy and replace it with taken by the academy is based on ebrations on December 25. It is not known if the Qatar ices for close to an hour-and-a- DOHA: The proposed multi- a republic, and accused neigh- partnerships with international The identity of the contro- Tourism Authority (QTA) is half, eye witnesses said. billion dollar Qatar-Bahrain boring Iran of being behind the experts in the field of childcare. He versial DJs has been kept a aware of the show but it has urged The police descended on the causeway project has run into conspiracy. said the academy will offer its serv- secret by the hotel as it prob- foreigners, including visitors and terminus after they were under- rough weather due to escalat- Tehran, he said, was under ices to students free of charge. ably wants those who turn up for expatriates, to ‘dress modestly’ in standably informed that a brief- ing costs and is now expected to pressure due to the Syrian crisis According to Al Mannai, the the Christmas celebrations to be public in line with the country’s case was seen kept for hours on be ready only a little before the and was trying to deflect atten- goal of the academy is to protect ‘pleasantly surprised’. customs and traditions. end below a bench meant for 2022 FIFA World Cup. tion. Sheikh Khalid also blamed children from the influence of However, a hotel official did The QTA last November joined waiting commuters. The cost of the project, accord- some international forces and other cultures, which is spreading confirm in remarks to this a campaign waged by a group of A police search party, according ing to Bahrain, soared in the organizations, as well as “individu- in the society through Asian nan- reporter that the ‘unique and Qatari writers on local social net- to eye witnesses, came there with aftermath of the world finan- als in Iraq”, and said they were nies, in particular. She said train- exclusive’ DJs set to perform on working sites calling on non-citizens sniffer dogs and cordoned off the cial turbulence so it has been trying to soil his country’s image ing Arab nannies in childcare that the ‘vibrant night’ of December to respect Qatar’s traditions and entire area for a while and even- referred for a review. “After the by spreading propaganda that the is in keeping with Qatari and 25 are none other than the ‘Duo values and follow the dress code as tually discovered that the brief- onset of the world financial crisis uprising was genuine and the gov- Islamic traditions was of immense Diamonds’. enshrined in the Qatari laws. case that raised the suspicion of we discovered that the cost of the ernment in Manama was acting in importance. THE PENINSULA The show that is sure to raise The drive was backed by Article security threat might have been project was very high, so we are a repressive manner. eyebrows in Qatar’s conservative 57 of the Qatari Constitution that left away by a commuter. reviewing the project and waiting Bahraini people have always Beijing transit society is set to be held in a par- prohibits wearing ‘indecent cloth- Buses coming in from different for its findings,” Bahrain’s foreign been demanding constitutional ticular ‘lounge’ of the hotel. There ing’ in public and explained what routes were made to wait outside minister has said. rights but never before have they visa for Qataris is no special fee for the event. exactly is considered inappropri- the terminus for as long as the The question now is what made a call for replacing the mon- Entry is free to the ‘lounge’ for ate, the QTA had said while join- search went on. Life turned to nor- the cost of the project would be, archy, he said. DOHA: China will grant visa- those who hold a membership ing the campaign. malcy after the search was over. and when the work would begin, Talking about the proposed free stay of up to 72 hours to card, while guests can reserve a THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al GCC Union, he said the priority Qatari citizens transiting via Khalifa said in an interview to Al of the member-countries at this Beijing Capital Airport, with Sharq. stage was to finalise mechanisms effect from January 1, 2013, an Speaking on the sidelines of for defence cooperation since a official source at the Consular Fiery volcano GCC foreign ministers’ meet- neighbouring country (a veiled Affairs Department of Qatar’s Egyptian VP quits ing in Manama, Sheikh Khalid reference to Iran) had a nuclear Foreign Ministry has said. said Qatar had already listed the programme. In order to get the transit visa, amid second round causeway project as part of mega “We don’t know its aim yet and Qatari citizens must present their 2022-linked development projects. we don’t know what type of tech- air tickets and register their state- of referendum “So the causeway will, of course, nology is being used. And even if ment at a security centre on the see the light of day.” we presume that the programme first day of their arrival in Beijing. CAIRO: Egyptians voted yes- But only a little before the 2022 is for peaceful purposes, a nuclear Their stay will be confined to the terday in the second round of a World Cup, he hinted. plant could lead to crises and we city of Beijing, which must also be referendum expected to approve The foreign minister said that could be the victims,” said Sheikh their port of departure, the source an Islamist-drafted constitution the uprising Bahrain witnessed Khalid. Continued on page 8 told Qatar News Agency. that lays foundations for a transi- QNA tion to democracy but is criticised as divisive by the opposition. Queues formed at some polling stations around the country and voting was extended by four hours to 11pm (2100 GMT). Last week’s Scribe criticises Aljazeera Mubashar first round of voting gave a 57 per- cent vote in favour of the constitu- tion, according to unofficial figures.