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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2015
LOCAL
In Brief
Foreign minister
leaves for Senegal
F
irst Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah headed to
Dakar, Senegal, yesterday on an official two-day visit. The
Foreign Minister will chair the Kuwaiti side to the second session of the joint Kuwaiti-Senegalese higher committee meetings. This visit to Senegal is part of a tour to various countries
including Morocco, Spain, and Germany. The Foreign
Minister was bid farewell by Deputy Prime Minister and
Minister of Interior Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Hamad
Al-Sabah, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh
Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Foreign
Ministry’s senior officials, besides ambassadors of Spain,
Senegal, and Moroccan Charge d’affairs to Kuwait. — KUNA
Health, Safety & Environ
confab to kick off Feb 16
Prince Charles
The Prince of Wales’s return to the
region, only one year after his last tour,
demonstrates the importance the British
government places on its association with
S
heikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award
(Kuwait Shift 5) was launched yesterday on the Kuwait
Government Online website. This year’s competition
titled “Kuwait For Humanity”, is meant to showcase the
country’s prominent charity work. Those who wish to
enroll can do so through the portal application: His
Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad For
Humanitarian Works.
The award coincides with the upcoming National Day
celebrations, said member of the award’s organizing
committee Bassam Al-Shimmari. The competition’s
theme goes side by side with the celebration’s main
theme “The Humanitarian Leader”, he added.
T
he Kuwait International Conference on Health, Safety
and the Environment 2015 will discuss the relation
between the environment and sustainable development,
said an official at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC). The
conference is set to kick off from February 16 to 17, under
the theme “We can change our environment,” KPC environmental advisor Dr Fatmah Al-Shatti told Kuwait News
Agency (KUNA) yesterday. The conference, to be patronized by Minister of Oil and Minister of State for Assembly
Affairs Ali Al-Omair, will address policies and strategies of
safety, health and environment, she noted. Meanwhile, the
advisor noted that a number of international and local
experts will discuss topics on safety in the oil field, medical
facilities and industrial safety.
Prince of Wales to visit
Kuwait on regional tour
KUWAIT: At the request of Her Majesty’s
Government, The Prince of Wales will
undertake official visits to Kuwait, Saudi
Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and
Jordan starting from February 7 and lasting
for five days.
Informatics Award
launched
key partners in the area. These connections are underpinned by the long-standing and respectful relationships which exist
between the British Royal Family and the
ruling families in the Gulf.
The tour starts in the Hashemite
Kingdom of Jordan where the prince, as a
guest of King Abdullah II of Jordan, will
meet His Majesty and other members of
the Jordanian royal family. In Kuwait, the
Prince of Wales will meet the Amir of
Kuwait, His Highness Sheikh Sabah AlAhmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. In Saudi Arabia,
the Prince of Wales will meet senior members of the royal family. In Doha, the Prince
of Wales will meet the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh
Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani. In
the United Arab Emirates, the Prince of
Wales will call on the Crown Prince of Abu
Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of
the UAE Armed Forces, His Highness
General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed AlNahayyan. The Prince of Wales will visit
Kuwait on Monday 9th February. His Royal
Highness has previously made six official
visits to Kuwait in 1989, 1993, 1997, 2006,
2007 and 2011.
Expat arrested with
1.25 kg of drugs
Kuwait officials call for
action against corruption
Ahmad Al-Rumaihi
Salem Al-Ali
By Faten Omar
KUWAIT: The Anti-Corruption Authority organized a workshop yesterday at its headquarters in
Shamiya to educate the public and officials in
leading positions about rules that govern financial disclosures and how to file such reports. The
workshop explained how to fill up the forms on
the Anti-Corruption Authority’s website to receive
feedback and dates of submission easily. The site
includes a link to submit financial disclosures
electronically.
Ahmad Al-Rumaihi, Secretary General of the
Authority, assured concerned citizens that their
information is secure. “The authority ensures the
confidentiality and privacy of information and
data submitted through the system,” he said.
“Finding remedies has become an inevitable
national task that warrants tackling,” Rumaihi said,
adding the workshops are part of moves to combat corruption and define financial disclosures as
stipulated by law no. 24 of 2012, based on which
the authority had been established. Salem Al-Ali,
Assistant Secretary General of the Authority,
revealed that the body will start receiving these
forms in the coming weeks, when it starts work.
The workshops being held from Feb 1 to 5 tackle
Audience seen at the workshop. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat
financial disclosures by directors of government
departments, authorities and establishments,
members of boards, deputies, assistants and
those who serve in key posts in companies where
the state has stakes of more than 25 percent. One
of the workshops will focus on undersecretaries,
their assistants, experts and judicial figures. In
Sept 2003, the United Nations concluded the
United Nations Convention Against Corruption,
to which Kuwait has acceded pursuant to law no.
47 of 2006. In 2012, the Anti-Corruption Authority
was established by law no. 24, which stipulates
that a public authority will be established and
supervised by the minister of justice and perform
its functions with full independence and impartiality. The bill also contains special texts on the
disclosure of financial liabilities for the categories
stipulated by this law.
Crime
R e p o r t
Expat run down
by reckless driver
KUWAIT: An Indian expat was hit by a reckless driver in
Jahra, who escaped. A security source said the victim submitted a medical report about her injuries which included
fractures in her left arm. Police are investigating.
Couple assault police
Expat seen with
1.25 kg of meth.
By Hanan Al-Saadoun
KUWAIT: Drugs Control General
Department officers arrested an expatriate
with 1.25 kg of meth. The arrest was made
following tips, and legal action was taken
to arrest him red-handed after an undercover agent made a deal with him. The suspect confessed that the money with him
was from drug sales. He was sent to concerned authorities.
Fireman’s 13th day
Deputy Director General for Fighting
and Human Resources Development, head
of the celebration committee Brig Khalid
Al-Mikrad announced the fireman’s 13th
day, which will be held under the patronage of State Minister for Cabinet Affairs
Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdallah AlMubarak Al-Sabah from 5-7/3/2015, coinciding with the celebration of the Civil
Protection World Day which occurs on
March 1st every year.
Al-Mikrad said this occasion is considered dear to all firemen, and represents
their annual feast, as they remember the
sacrifices they gave at the service of the
country, and the people participate it to
see what the fireman do and the difficulties
he faces.
He said the celebration will take place in
Souk Sharq for three days with the participation of various state agencies.
A citizen and his wife resisted Jahra police and
smashed the patrol carís window after being stopped
at Qairawan Co-op parking lot for obstructing traffic.
The husband attempted to escape on foot in an
abnormal condition, but was caught but his wife
escaped in the car after verbally insulting police. The
woman is being sought for attempting to hinder
police work, in addition to the insult charges
Indian arrested
Criminal detectives are investigating a case of an Indian
present in Kuwait, while Interior Ministry records show
that he left the country five years ago. This took place
after arresting the suspect in Salhiya without an iqama.
Drunk citizen detained
Farwaniya security arrested a drunk citizen at the fingerprint office in Farwaniya. The citizen had a fight
with the employees, and was found to be in an
abnormal condition. — Al-Rai
KUWAIT: Head of the Government Performance Follow-up Apparatus Sheikh Ahmad
Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during his visit at Adan Hospital. — KUNA
Sheikh Ahmad Meshal urges
better health services
KUWAIT: Head of the Government
Performance Follow-up Apparatus Sheikh
Ahmad Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
urged here yesterday officials at the Ministry
of Health to necessarily develop services
and provide all health care for patients.
Sheikh Meshal made this remark during
his visit to Adan Hospital where he was
accompanied by Undersecretary of the
Ministry Dr Khaled Al-Sahlawi. The apparatus said in a statement that Sheikh Meshal
inspected the hospital’s departments and
listened to proposals of some patients and
staff relating to improving health services.
This visit is part of a mechanism set for following up the performance of ministries and
service bodies across the country, the statement noted. — KUNA
SWOT used to analyze Kuwait tourism
Fire department’s top officials seen during the meeting.
KUWAIT: “Developing tourism in Kuwait is not an
impossible task but it requires confrontation of
impediments to increase strengths and get rid of
fears and threats in order to move stagnant waters
as well as increase opportunities and positive
points,” stressed the General Manager of Leaders
Group Company For Consultancy and
Development Nabila Al-Anjari, pointing out that
doing so requires using SWOT analysis in order to
make the right decision and carry out the five-year
plan to improve tourism that was mentioned in the
previous monthly report focusing on 6 main hindering elements:
1- Limited government support. The report
stressed that tourism lacks government support in
Kuwait and that some sort of declared government
commitment had to be made in order to make
tourism an alternative source of national income.
2- Not institutionalizing tourism through forming an independent ‘Supreme Tourism Authority’ or
organization to care for touristic issues and make
the needed decisions without having to go
through tedious routine that has been hindering
touristic development.
3- The bad condition of tourism facilities and
services that have remained undeveloped since
they were established in the 1970s and 1980s.
4- Scarcity of lands to be used for building
touristic facilities and the high prices of available
land, which poses pressure on any feasibility study.
5- Lack of specialized legislation.
6- Lack of coordination amongst government
bodies.
The report also suggested some steps to
encourage tourism, such as:
1- Visa on arrival at the airport, which is already
available for 34 nationalities, with hope to increase
them.
2- Building a new airport.
3- Licensing private aviation companies.
The SWOT analysis showed the opportunities of
making Kuwait a touristic dentition as follows:
1- Kuwait has unique desert environment that can
be utilized by building touristic and medical treat-
ment resorts and camps a well as organizing desert
and beach sport competitions.
2- Having 7 months of good weather from October
through May.
3- Availability of finance and human resources
needed to activate tourism at competent levels.
4- Semi-ready infrastructure that facilitates receiving tourists.
5- Historic and cultural attractions such as museums and many cultural centers.
6- Strategic location as a gateway to the Middle
East and a transit point for many destinations.
The analysis defined the threats as:
1- Delay in decision making that resulted in impeding scores of touristic projects that had already
been studied and remain unexecuted.
2- Interference of bodies that do not appreciate
tourism and have conflicting interests.
3- Severe competition with surrounding touristic
destinations.
4-Deliberate ignorance of public touristic facilities.