Outdoor work ban starts June 1

KUWAIT: The Public Authority for Manpower authority issued its annual decision banning laborers from working in the open from 11:00 am till 4:00 pm, effective from the beginning of June till the end of August. Acting director Abdullah Al-Motoutah urged employers to observe these timings and conditions in order to avoid legal accountability.

Salwa’s Church

The Municipal Council’s deputy chairman Meshaal Al-Jowaisri said a church was established in a recently sold house in Salwa, and raised questions about whether it was properly licensed through the relevant state authorities. “How can a church be built in a residential area without prior permissions from relevant authorities?” he exclaimed, noting that many complaints had been filed by owners of neighboring houses.

Municipality’s budget

Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhi said that the parliamentary budgets committee had officially approved the municipality’s budget in full and attributed this to full cooperation on municipality officials’ side in responding to the remarks made by the Audit Bureau. Speaking at a meeting with the municipality’s supreme planning committee, Manfouhi stressed this cooperation had a great impact on the monthly reports made by the Audit Bureau.

He noted that the municipality’s legal affairs department recently succeeded in collecting KD 7 million after winning a case concerning a legal dispute. Separately, Chairman of the Municipal Council’s environmental affairs committee Osama AlOtaibi said discussing the establishment of a committee to be responsible for environmental issues and marine buoys under the municipality supervision was postponed until certain relevant government bodies are invited to a future meeting.