Developing potentials

Minister of Oil and Minister of Electricity and Water Essam Al-Marzouq stressed KPC greatly prioritizes investments in human resources in order to face various challenges Kuwait oil industries may face on the course of achieving sustainable development. Marzouq added that KPC has plans to employ as many Kuwaiti oil engineers as possible to invest in them and develop their potentials.

Ministry denies reports

Undersecretary of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic affairs and head of the hajj mission Fareed Emadi strongly denied social media reports that any bedoon pilgrims were sleeping on the ground. He stressed that he personally inspected the scene and found that they were all housed in a standard building, but had to wait to be lodged in their respective rooms on arrival.

‘We hate her policies’

MP Khaled Al-Otaibi said Minister of Social Affairs and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hind Al-Sabeeh was desperately trying to protect her position and that she made very weak statements to the media. “We have nothing personal against her, but we hate her policies of humiliating citizens,” he underlined. Otaibi also urged Sabeeh to name those she accused of having fears of corruption files being opened and discussed, promising to be the first to support her in holding them accountable. Former MP Abdulhameed Dashti said lawmakers are incapable of grilling Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh because this will have the parliament dissolved. He also predicted that Sabeeh’s tenure would be concluded in October and that she will resign from office, because she knows MPs are mobilizing to oust her, as she has blocked many of their interests in handicapped transactions, collecting donations and some co-ops.

Audit Bureau’s remarks

MP Saleh Ashour said the Social Security Authority should take the Audit Bureau’s remarks concerning assessing its investments into full consideration, especially since those investments’ revenues have remarkably dropped.

No leave extension

MoE’s Human Resources Manager Saud Al-Jowaiser stressed that all regulations will be strictly imposed on all school administration staff members who fail to show up to work as planned after the Eid vacation, namely pilgrims who went to perform hajj without applying for hajj leave. Jowaiser also noted that employees who had previously been given hajj leave will not get it again. He also stressed that leave will not be extended unless an employee has officially been granted hajj leave. Meanwhile, Hawally Educational Zone Director Mansour Al-Thafieri announced that 114 schools under his jurisdiction are ready for the new school year 2017-2018 to receive 45,000 students.

Construction violations

Minister of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Mohammed Al-Jabri stressed that the Municipality is keen on imposing laws and regulations over construction violations, such as not providing parking spaces. Responding to a parliamentary inquiry about municipality procedures in such cases, Jabri stressed that according to article 33 of law number 33/2016, new construction licenses will not be issued unless a building includes a basement or a complete floor to be used for parking. In another development, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Acting Minister of State for Youth Affairs Khaled Al-Roudhan issued ministerial decision number 67/2017 pertaining the standard specifications of building bricks.

Employee arrested

Fraud and forgery police detectives arrested a female MoH employee working in a hospital in Al-Sabah Medical Zone for receiving bribes from a patient, said security sources. The sources explained that the employee was caught red-handed while receiving KD 4,000 to facilitate setting an appointment for a patient to be operated on by a visiting doctor.