ISO 9001:2008 CERTIFIED NEWSPAPER Home | 2 Business | 17 Sport | 26 Medical team of With oil at $50, Man United 30 part of Qatar firms fear deeper look for winning Hajj Mission this crisis, cut $180bn balance after year. in spending. heavy spending. THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2015 • 21 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6514 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 10 die in Baghdad car bomb blasts 2010-2014 Dodge Citizens decry Grand Caravan, Chrysler Town & damage to Country recalled DOHA: The Ministry of Economy and Commerce, in collaboration with United Cars – Al Mana, dealer of Dodge Corniche Street and Chrysler in Qatar, has announced the recall of Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Ashghal asked to blacklist erring firms Town & Country 2010-2014 models due to defects in the DOHA: Public Works Mohamed Dhafir Al Hajri, rear quarter window switch. Authority (Ashghal) has come another member of CMC repre- The recall is within the frame- in for severe criticism by people, senting Al Shahaniya, said the work of coordination and follow- including a member of Central upper layer of the Corniche Street up by the ministry to ascertain Municipal Council (CMC), after stretch may have been damaged dealers’ commitment to follow up parts of Corniche Street were as the project might have been defects and repair them to protect found damaged and its contrac- completed in a haste. consumers’ rights. tors have been asked to carry “Such mistakes are bound to The ministry said it will coor- out repairs. happen due to a variety of rea- People look at damage at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad’s Sadr City yesterday. At least 10 people were dinate with United Cars – Al According to Al Sharq, the sons. Sometimes there may be a killed and 22 wounded in two car bomb attacks that targeted predominately Shia neighbourhoods in Baghdad, Mana to follow up maintenance road whose top layer of asphalt hurry to finish a project in time,” police and medical sources said. Report on page 6 and repair processes and com- has been found damaged at places, Al Hajri said. municate with clients to ensure was built less than two years ago. But a Qatari, who didn’t give the success of the recall campaign The project was completed on his name, told Al Sharq that it is and implementation of procedures October 15, 2013. primarily Ashghal’s responsibility to fix defects. People, in remarks to the daily, to ensure the quality of a project. Consumers have been urged to expressed displeasure and faulted “Ashghal is to basically blame Army training now part of report any abuses or irregularities Ashghal for awarding important for choosing substandard con- to the Department of Consumer road contracts to companies that tracting companies,” the citizen Protection and Commercial Fraud are not quality-conscious. said. “Such companies must admit Combat. THE PENINSULA Repairs on the stretch of the their mistake in the first place mandatory national service street between Post Office and and must be forced to carry out WADA nod to Qatar National Theatre intersections the needed repairs.” DOHA: More emphasis will be Service Authority has drawn up and will include training with is slated to begin today and lasts The citizen said special care laid on military training than new curriculum for the national army units after camp training. anti-doping lab until Sunday. should be taken with regard to civilian aspects in the state- service for new batches. Participants attached to army Councillor Abdullah Al Sulaiti the monitoring of public projects mandated compulsory national “The focus will now be more units will be trained in the use of MONTREAL: A new anti- told Al Sharq that Ashghal must because the country is passing service for young male citizens. on military training than civilian light weapons. doping laboratory in Qatar was employ more Qatari engineers to through a hectic phase of infra- Participants in a fresh national aspects,” Brigadier Nasser Abdul At Al Shamal camp, as usual, approved by World Anti-Doping monitor public projects like roads structure development. service programme slated to begin Rahman Al Jaber, Deputy Head of the regimen will be tough and Association (WADA) executive and run quality checks. “Such mistakes, as the one next month, will be attached to Authority, was quoted as saying. training will begin right after committee yesterday. He said Qatari contracting on Corniche Street, cannot be army units for a while at the end “And physical fitness will continue pre-dawn prayers and last until Anti-Doping Lab Qatar com- companies must be given prefer- ignored,” he said. of their camp in Al Shamal. to remain the ultimate objective late at night. pleted requirements of WADA’s ence in awarding road and other Ashghal must frame tough Qatar’s National Service of the programme,” he added. Lectures on Qatar’s history, accreditation process, which project contracts as they would be rules for contracting companies Authority has a well-equipped Of the two batches, one will social science, culture, envi- started in 2014, WADA said. loyal to the country and ensure and make them follow its speci- camp for cadets in Al Shamal. comprise participants with uni- ronment and society as well as The process included site visits, quality. fications and standards strictly, Since the start of the manda- versity degree. The other will awareness against drug abuse, participation in WADA’s exter- One cannot expect such loyalty he added. tory service early last year, par- consist of men who have second- physical exercise and sports, will nal quality assessment scheme from foreign companies, he added. Fortunately, the Corniche ticipants have camped there for ary school certificates and lower dominate camp training. monitored by WADA’s labora- He said Ashghal must fine and Street project was within the training. educational qualifications, includ- “The new programme will be tory group. It is the 35th WADA- blacklist contracting companies guarantee period and the con- However, two new batches ing those who are school dropouts. different from the ones conducted accredited laboratory. that do not carry out quality work tracting company could be asked reporting for the national service The first batch (of those with since the start of the national “Qatar is a key player in the and fail to comply with Qatari to carry out repairs, the citizen next month, will have a different university degree) will spend two service,” Brigadier Al Jaber said. sporting world, and its laboratory standards and specifications. said. It would be a sheer waste experience. After two months of months at Al Shamal camp. After According to a national service will play an increasingly impor- And there is the need for of public money if the guarantee training at the base camp in Al that, they will be attached for a law introduced early last year, all tant role in improving anti-dop- Ashghal to frame tough and period was over and Ashghal had Shamal, the cadets will be sent to month to army units for field Qatari men between 18 and 35 ing analytical capacities in Qatar world-class standards and speci- to spend on repairs from its own army units for military training. training. years must attend compulsory and the Middle East region,” said fications for public projects like pocket, he said. The local Arabic daily Al Raya The training period for the national service for three to four Craig Reedie, President, WADA, roads, he added. THE PENINSULA reported yesterday that National other batch will be four months months. THE PENINSULA in a statement. REUTERS Over 200 migrants 105 Palestinian teachers hired feared drowned DOHA: Some 105 Palestinian teachers from Gaza are being recruited by Independent schools for the next academic year that off Libya coast begins next month. They will teach subjects, including English and Arabic, at primary, preparatory and secondary levels in the state- ROME: Over 200 migrants controlled schools where pay and perks are lucrative. attempting the perilous journey The teachers, including 65 women, have been recruited as part of across the Mediterranean were Qatar’s new Palestinian employment programme. The local Arabic feared to have drowned yes- daily Al Arab yesterday carried a list of the teachers and said they will terday after their overcrowded also teach maths, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, social fishing boat capsized off Libya. science, Islamic studies and other subjects. The teachers have a mini- The boat, believed to have mum of three years’ experience and are under 50. THE PENINSULA been carrying over 600 migrants, including women and children, Seha includes vitamin D medicines ran into difficulty about 15 nau- tical miles off Libya and sent out DOHA: National Health Insurance Company (Seha) said the man- a distress call, picked up by the datory medical insurance (which currently covers only Qataris) coastguard in Sicily. scheme also includes vitamin D medicines, but warned beneficiar- The Doctors Without Borders ies against its excessive use as it can increase chances of heart and (MSF) ship Dignity One and Irish kidney ailments. People must consult a doctor before taking vitamin patrol vessel LE Niamh were dis- D to avoid possible risks, the local Arabic daily Al Watan reports. Officers carrying a flaperon from an aircraft apparently washed ashore in Saint-Andre de la Reunion, eastern La patched to the scene, but the A source at Hamad Medical Corporation told the daily that about Reunion island, France. boat capsized after the migrants 80 percent of people in Qatar suffer from vitamin D deficiency due moved to one side in the hope of to lack of exposure to sunlight.