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Kuwait City: As the public sector prepares to reduce the number of non-Kuwaitis working in governmental jobs, work contracts of 148 expats are to be terminated, local media reported. The Assistant Undersecretary for Administrative Affairs at the Ministry of Education, Rajaa Bouraki, asked all divisions within the Ministry to prepare a list of employees that are to be terminated at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. The decision comes as the public sector is trying to achieve Kuwaitisation, a...

Majority of those have been stuck outside of country due to COVID-19 travel restrictions

Several Gulf states have tightened up on flights and entry of non-nationals

Ban on non-Kuwaitis entering Kuwait began on February 7

PM absence regretted KUWAIT CITY, March 11: The parliamentary Education, Culture and Guidance Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved bills regarding the allowance of Kuwaitis studying at Kuwait University and the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET), as well as those on local scholarship. Committee Chairman MP Hamad Al-Matar disclosed that they approved the proposal to increase the allowance from KD200 to KD300 per month; as well as the suggestion to add male Kuwaiti st...

Ban on non-Kuwaitis entering Kuwait began on February 7

Messenger ABU Ali Mansour, better known by his regnal name “Al-Hakim Bi-Amr Allah” (The Ruler by the Order of God) was the sixth ruler of the Fatimid Empire in the 10th century. He was known for his strange decisions, for example, he had prohibited the cultivation of mallow and watercress crops, and ordered the punishment of those who ate them. It is said that the reason behind his ban on the cultivation of mallow and watercress plants was that he almost fell after stepping on them on one o...

MP seeks pullback on foreign aid KUWAIT CITY, March 9: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji has called for rationalizing the financial support that Kuwait grants to other countries in light of the low oil prices and the major negative economic consequences of coronavirus. The lawmaker also forwarded queries to Minister of Finance Khalifa Hamada about all the amounts of grants given to other countries from 1990 to 2020. He requested for details such as the amount granted to every country and the criteria ad...

Messenger KUWAIT CITY, March 7: The parliamentary Human Resources and Public Funds Protection committees were set to meet on Sunday to discuss various bills and reports. Items in the agenda of the Human Resources Committee include bills on nationalizing jobs in the public sector; such as that of MP Abdulkareem Al-Kandari on obligating ministries, public institutions and independent authorities to replace expatriate workers with Kuwaitis within one year. According to the bill, vacant posts in th...

Garages see huge rush KUWAIT CITY, March 7: Automobile workshops in Shuwaikh Industrial Area witnessed a huge number of motorists who were keen to repair their vehicles prior to the start of the partial curfew from Sunday, reports Al-Anba daily. There was congestion in garages, auto shops and car wash stations, as well as car decoration shops which attracted a large number of customers, especially the youth. Despite being a weekend, many shops were open to receive customers who wanted to repair...