Call of penalties on contracting companies
KUWAIT CITY, April 20: A number of MPs have responded positively to an Egyptian working as security guard in a school after he appeared in a video clip complaining that he did not receive his salary for the past five months. MPs Mehalhal Al-Mudaf and Osama Al-Shaheen called on the Ministry of Education to pay the salaries of security guards in schools and impose penalties on contracting companies which violated the provisions of the relevant contracts.
MPs Mehalhal Al-Mudaf and Osama Al-Shaheen
The Ministry of Education has announced that it already transferred the salaries to the contracting companies until March 2021. The Egyptian security guard was later seen in a picture with MP Salah Zeib Al-Mutairi in the latter’s vehicle while they were leaving the Ministry of Interior. Al-Mutairi personally followed up the ministry’s investigation into the complaint of the security guard after uploading the video clip.
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KUWAIT CITY, April 5: Former MP Badr Al-Dahoum filed an appeal at the Court of Cassation regarding the Constitutional Court’s decision to cancel his parliamentary membership despite the final verdict of the Court of Cassation which confirmed the legitimacy of his candidacy and victory in the 2020 National Assembly elections. Al-Dahoum disclosed he is hoping that the response to his appeal confirms the finality of verdicts issued by the Court of Cassation; hence, such verdicts should not be appealed by any other court or subject to other courts cancelling them or issuing a contradictory decision.
MP Badr Al-Dahoum
In another development, MP Marzouq Al-Khalifa called on National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanim to resign; otherwise, the latter should be dismissed soon. He pointed out that the resignation of Al-Ghanim is the normal course of action which should be taken due to the recent violation of the Constitution and manipulation of voting on the request of HH the
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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 students married to non-Kuwaitis, Bedouns and children of Kuwaiti women married to non- Kuwaitis to the beneficiaries of the allowance.
He explained that Bedouns were added to the beneficiaries, taking into consideration their small number and the need to support them as their success in pursuing higher studies implies they are excellent and dedicated students. In another development, the Budgets and Final Accounts Committee on Wednesday tackled two issues – profits retained by several publ