Overheard in the Souk the grapevine

With the proliferation of fake marriage certificates, university diplomas and other public documents, the authentication of all the aforementioned documents at the Kuwait Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become ever so tedious. One has to run here and there, have all the documents translated to Arabic, stamped by the translation centre, then have them stamped at your respective embassy and then finally for stamping at the MFA.

You get lucky if you get all things right otherwise you can only heave a sigh and scratch your head and go back again to step 1. Gone are the days when authenticating documents is so easy.

Thanks to all the bogus, wannabes and fakers! On one hand, it’s also to protect the interest of the state and the public. What if a lunatic fake doctor submits a degree in medicine and gets accredited by the MOH or a fake dentist drilling your molar? You know what will happen next. So better be

safe than sorry!

With the end of summer holidays and students and kids back to school, the traffic jam has also surfaced on the roads. Thousands of holiday goers have come back to the country, schools and universities have resumed.

At the airport, arrival hall is filled with people coming back home either from holidays or from Hajj pilgrimage or other religious rituals, while the departure hall is almost empty.

With thousands of citizens and expatriates back to work and schools would mean millions of cars and vehicles would be moving on the streets of Kuwait causing serious traffic jam especially during peak hours.

We know that Kuwaiti lawmakers have already submitted several proposals to resolve traffic crisis in the country but none of them has been taken into consideration or approved by the parliament.

One of the proposals include not issuing driving license to any new applicant of expatriates, but the huge traffic jam seen now on the road could prompt the lawmakers to push for the approval of their proposals to solve the traffic crisis in the country. Some see that the traffic crisis could be solved only after the new roads and bridges under construction are completed and not depriving expatriates from having driving license.