Kuwaiti POWs’ remains to be exhumed: Iraqi

KUWAIT: Iraq Human Rights Minister Mohammed Mahdi Al-Bayati said that remains of some Kuwaiti prisoner of wars and missing persons have been located and would be exhumed soon. “Many such sites have been located, and working jointly with the Kuwaiti side and the ministry’s mass graves experts, we hope to start digging them out very soon,” he said. Likewise, Bayati urged Iraqis who have any information on missing Kuwaiti people to report it to the ministry. Meanwhile, Bayati said that Iraq had arranged with Iran to speed up the exchange of remains of soldiers killed during the IraqiIranian war.

Vegetable market robber sentenced to death

The criminal court recently sentenced a 21-year-old bedoon man to death, a 17-year-old Syrian man to 10 years in prison (because he is a juvenile), and fined a 20-year-old Syrian man and a 21-year-old citizen KD 50 each. The four suspects were arrested over charges of armed robbery at the Sulaibiya vegetable market where the 21-year-old bedoon man fired a machine gun killing two market staffs, while the 17-year-old Syrian stood by and held a knife to assist him. According to public prosecution, the 20-year-old Syrian and the 21-year-old citizen were fined for withholding information and harboring fugitives.

Family houses

Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmed Al-Subaih said that private residential houses have been designed to house one family each and that according to Law Number 125/1992, in cases where the houses are divided into apartments, those inhabiting them would be treated as bachelors even if they were families, and thus must be evicted. Subaih added that in collaboration with the ministries of electricity and water and of interior, power would be disconnected in those units pending eviction.

Computer teachers

Because of the abundance of computer teachers after cancelling PC subjects for the first three grades in primary schools and reducing the total number of daily periods from seven to six, the Ministry of Education recently decided not to accept any more applications from teachers specializing in computer.

Mosque cams

MP Humoud Al-Hamdan praised the efforts made by the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs to secure worshippers noting that searching worshippers, allocating only one gate to get into the mosque and manual frisking were great measures. Hamdan added that installing surveillance cameras at mosques’ gates were part of the security surveillance cameras law, which was referred to the government for review.

‘Kuwaitis reconciled’

MP Faisal Al-Kandari expressed his amazement at the recent statements made by some former MPs, statements which he described as provocative to the political situation in Kuwait. “Those calling for reconciliation only mean to beguile the [already] fully aware and alerted Kuwaiti people,” he said explaining that some former MPs, who had not approved of Amiri decrees and went to court over them and when the court supported the one vote decree, were politically embarrassed and torn between accepting the system they had opposed and the achievements made by the current parliament.