Councilmember calls for regulating bedoon vendors’ work
KUWAIT: Municipal Council member and head of the Hawally committee Abdullah Al-Roumi filed two proposals on setting certain locations for bedoon watermelon vendors. His proposal came after the municipality recently confiscated their goods and prevented them from selling the fruit “without any consideration for their needs and the fact that this is their only source of income as bedoons,” he said in a statement yesterday. Roumi suggested setting up special outlets in various governorates for them as well as setting all the needed
laws and regulations to keep them under the close control of state inspectors to makes sure their products are safe. Meanwhile, councilmember and head of the grievances committee Meshaal Al-Hamdhan inquired about the conditions on licensing goldsmiths, noting that this profession requires the use of some materials that could be highly hazardous if disposed in the sewers.
802 complaints
Acting Director of the Public Authority for Manpower Abdullah Al-Motoutah said according to the statistics compiled by the domestic helpers’ recruitment department in May 2019, there are 397 registered domestic helper recruitment offices, 530 applications were made in the same period, 67 licenses were renewed and eight new licenses were issued. Motoutah said that the total number of complaints and grievances filed with the department was 802, including 281 that were tended to, 161 amicably settled and 56 referred to courts.
1,575 reports
Manager of the Health Ministry’s medical emergencies department Monther Al-Jalahma announced the department dealt with 1,575 reports during the Eid break. He explained that the reports included transferring 968 cases to hospitals and nearby clinics, treating 339 cases onsite (mainly with minor injuries from car accidents, fights or burns) and transferring 268 cases between various hospitals. Jalahma added seven cases were medevacked in the same period.
Summer burials
Manager of the funerals department at Kuwait Municipality Faisal Abdulkareem Al-Awadhi said in view of the high summer temperatures and in order to make things easier for families of the dead and mourners during funerals, the department decided to schedule summer burials at 9:00 am and after Asr and Esha prayers, adding that all needed illumination had been provided for use during nighttime.