RAJAB 8, 1439 AH SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2018 Max 33º 32 Pages Min 16º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 17489 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net KIB approves distribution of Citybus always striving to Crowds rally in largest US gun Ronaldo’s last-gasp two-goal 18 10% cash dividends for 2017 21 offer the best to Kuwait 11 control protest in a generation 15 show steals Salah limelight Illegals urged to avail of amnesty before it ends Finance panel to review proposal to tax expat remittances By Hanan Al-Saadoun and A Saleh isterial amnesty decision reached 46,737 by March 22, of passports expired before Feb 21 but have a valid resi- islative and legal affairs committee, which had rejected whom 30,052 left the country without paying fines, while dency and wish to leave the country, as well as those the proposal as unconstitutional. He said the topic will be KUWAIT: Director General of the Residency Affairs the rest corrected their status. reported absconding before Feb 21. subjected to further study with the finance minister. Department Maj Gen Talal Maarafi urged residency vio- As for domestic helpers, Maarafi said the sponsor Separately, the parliamentary financial and economic Khorsheed denied any intentions to tax citizens’ lators to take advantage of the grace period for residen- must come to the department to remove any absconding affairs committee is scheduled to meet today to discuss a remittances and stressed that according to statistics, cy violators that will continue until April 22. He said the complaint to transfer their residency to another sponsor. proposal to tax expatriates’ remittances. The committee’s expats’ annual remittances exceed KD 4.5 billion. He higher leadership at the interior ministry reviews the He said violators allowed to leave during the remaining chairman MP Salah Khorsheed said Finance Minister also noted that suggestions include imposing gradual humanitarian circumstances of violators and offers them period include only those who entered the country Nayef Al-Hajraf will attend the meeting to discuss various taxes. “However, we will consult the finance minister all facilities to quickly process their transactions. He before Feb 21 and their regular or temporary residency related proposals. Khorsheed added that the committee and the Central Bank prior to making any decision,” added the number of those who benefited from the min- expired. He added the initiative also covers those whose has already reviewed a report by the parliamentary leg- he concluded. Rare artifacts France mourns slain found along ‘hero’ officer; Amir eastern coast sends condolences KUWAIT: Kuwait’s National Council for TREBES, France: President Culture, Arts and Letters (NCCAL) has Emmanuel Macron led tributes discovered tens of cemeteries and yesterday to a French police- engraved items in a popular eastern man who died after offering resort on the shores of the Arabian Gulf. himself as a hostage to help end The new discoveries are reminiscent of a Sultan Al-Duweish an attack, becoming the fourth bronze age culture known as “Um Al- victim of the shooting spree and Nar”, which existed around 2,500 BC in ical surveys carried out on unexplored supermarket siege. Lieutenant- the area of modern-day United Arab landscapes. On the purpose of such Colonel Arnaud Beltrame, 45, Emirates and northern Oman, the direc- endeavors, Duweish noted it helps was among a group of officers tor of NCCAL’s department of antiqui- uncover the illustrious history of who rushed to the scene in the Arnaud Beltrame ties and museums Sultan Al-Duweish Kuwait, a nation whose soil has con- southwestern town of Trebes on told KUNA yesterday. tributed immensely to the growth of Friday after an attacker claiming allegiance to the He pointed out that the area was at human civilization. The NCCAL official Islamic State group holed up in a supermarket follow- one point a vibrant trade zone that revealed that the council has partnered ing a shooting spree in nearby Carcassonne. linked vast civilizations across eastern with a number of renowned schools Continued on Page 11 Saudi Arabia, adding the findings are and institutes in its quest to locate hid- the byproduct of extensive archaeolog- den cultural gems. — KUNA KUWAIT: The rare antiquities that were found along the eastern Kuwaiti coast. — KUNA Sabah yesterday sent a cable to Egyptian Sisi expressing Bomb kills 2 Egypt condemnation of the terrorist blast. He denounced the ter- rorist operation that contradicted all covenants and humanitarian values. He affirmed support for Egypt policemen; Amir regarding any measures it opts to take to safeguard its security and stability. HH the Amir expressed condolences sends condolences to the president and the martyrs’ families. HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and CAIRO: Two policemen were killed in the Egyptian city of HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al- Alexandria in a bomb attack yesterday that targeted the Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables. local security chief two days before a presidential election. “These desperate attempts by the forces of terrorism Five other people were wounded by the bomb, which was and the states that back it to affect the positive atmos- left under a car and blew up as police Major General phere the country is witnessing will only increase the Mostafa Al-Nemr drove past, the interior ministry said. Egyptian state’s resolve to complete its political process Nemr was not hurt and said later he would not be deterred and economic progress,” Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said. from “doing his duty” in safeguarding next week’s vote. Photos posted on social media showed a burnt out car There was no immediate claim of responsibility for and smoke at the site of the blast. Local television stations the blast, which the state news agency blamed on the later showed Nemr unharmed and inspecting the area. banned Muslim Brotherhood organization. Islamic State Residents close to the scene in Alexandria, Egypt’s sec- released a video last month in which it warned Egyptians ond-largest city, reported hearing a huge blast when the against voting and urged Islamists to attack security bomb detonated mid-morning. “I suddenly heard a very forces and leaders. The government condemned the strong explosion and ran towards the street, but I retreat- attack and suggested it would not affect the election ed out of fear,” said Mohamed Ismail, a doorman at a beginning tomorrow in which President Abdel Fattah Al- building near the explosion. “I thought the building would Sisi is set to win a second term. collapse and kept checking on its pillars,” he added. ALEXANDRIA: Egyptian forensics officers check a destroyed vehicle at the site of a bomb attack in this northern HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al- Continued on Page 11 port city yesterday. — AFP and water urged Kuwaitis, expats and penguin colonies in Antarctica, the Cities go dark state institutions to participate in the conservation group said in a report it initiative. Images from across Asia commissioned that was published in showed buildings including Kuala the science journal Climatic Change. during global Lumpur’s Petronas Towers, as well as The analysis, released last week, said the famous harbor skylines of Hong key biodiverse sites around the world Earth Hour Kong and Singapore, being plunged projected to be most affected by into darkness to mark the occasion. localized extinction include the SYDNEY: The Sydney Opera House Other global landmarks that took part Amazon, the plant’s largest tropical and Harbour Bridge went dark for an include Beijing’s Bird’s Nest Olympic rainforest, and southern Africa’s hour yesterday, kicking off a global stadium, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Miombo Woodlands. campaign that saw landmark buildings Pyramids of Egypt and New York’s While the lights-off event is a around the world dim their lights to Empire State Building. symbolic gesture, Earth Hour has led raise awareness about the impacts of With global temperatures the high- successful campaigns over the past climate change. Earth Hour, which est on record, O’Gorman said this decade to ban plastics in the started in Australia in 2007, was being year’s theme was the impact of climate Galapagos Islands and plant 17 mil- observed by millions of supporters in change on biodiversity and plant and lion trees in Kazakhstan. Sydneysider 187 countries, who turned off their animal species. “More than half of plant Dianna Ali, who was having dinner lights at 8.30 pm local time in what and animal species face local extinction with family as the lights went off in organizers describe as the world’s in some of the world’s most naturally the city, said the initiative had made “largest grassroots movement for cli- rich areas in biodiversity by the turn of her more aware of the impact of her mate change”. “It aims to raise aware- this century if we continue along the lifestyle on the planet’s health. “Since ness about the importance of protect- current path that we are trending in Earth Hour started, it’s made me more ing the environment and wildlife,” terms of global warming,” he said. conscious of how much power I’m Earth Hour organizer WWF Australia Species at risk include Australia’s using,” she told AFP. “I think... about DUBAI: A man and two children light candles after lights were switched off for the Earth Hour environmen- chief Dermot O’Gorman told AFP. green turtles, black-flanked rock wal- how much one individual can make a tal campaign yesterday. — AFP In Kuwait, the ministry of electricity labies and koalas, as well as the Adelie difference.”— AFP 2 Established 1961 Local Sunday, March 25, 2018 Claims against Kuwaiti parliament simply baseless: Speaker Ghanem Kuwait participates in Asian Group meeting at IPU assembly GENEVA: Kuwait’s National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem (center right) heads the Kuwaiti parlia- National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem chairs a coordination meeting by the Islamic group on the mentary delegation during a meeting at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).