Kuwait Times

Published Date: January 07, 2009

KUWAIT: MP Abdullatif Al-Ameeri warned that some houses in Doha and Sulaibikhat face the risk of collapse because their floors are sinking. He warned the government and the Minister of Housing Affairs in particular not to ignore this issue and to come up with a solution as soon as possible because the lives of Kuwaiti citizens were at stake, Al-Qabas reported. He reminded the government that any official delaying efforts to deal with the problem would be held responsible for any injuries or deaths that occ
urred.

Defunct satellite station to be scrapped
KUWAIT: Minister of Communications Abdulrahman Al-Ghunaim recently addressed the Ministry of Finance and asked them to prepare the procedures necessary in order to sell the remains of a defunct satellite communications station in the remote area of Um Al-Aish. The station was heavily damaged by Iraqi forces during the invasion of 1990/91. Al-Ghunaim said his ministry decided to sell the remaining satellite dishes, wires, and damaged communication sets as scrap items in order to clean up the area the facili
ty is located in. He said the Communication Ministry also hoped to receive some financial profits from the sale of items from the destroyed station, Al-Qabas reported. The two ministries will form a committee of engineers and technicians, as well as a financial team, to assess the worth of the items to be sold.

School to get suspension lifted
KUWAIT: A private school in Kuwait under suspension by the Ministry of Education for raising tuition above the allowed percentage will have its suspension lifted soon. The school has agreed to reduce the recently raised fees and to refund parents who paid the extra tuition, reported Al-Qabas. In defiance of Ministry of Education regulations permitting no more than a five percent increase, the school reportedly raised tuition by 10 percent. The report did not name the school. After reaching an agreement wit
h the school owner, however, the ministry agreed to lift the suspension. In exchange the school agreed that it wouldn't raise tuition fees next school year and would return any extra fees to parents of students if the parents don't approve of the raise. The ministry imposes a number of penalties like suspending all administrative transactions and procedures on schools in violation of fee regulations.

Kuwaiti Shiites belong to Kuwait only
KUWAIT: Shiite clergyman Mohammad Baqer Al-Mahri said that the occasion of Ashoura is an opportunity to get rid of sectarian sentiment and maintained that Kuwaiti Shiites belong neither to East nor West but to Kuwait only. Meanwhile, he condemned the brutal Israeli attacks on Gaza, Al-Qabas reported. Later, he asked the Ministry of Education to delay some exams that were set to take place during Ashoura and postpone them until a later date.