KUWAIT: A State
Audit Bureau report about Sabah Al-Salem University City (Kuwait University -
Al-Shadadiya) tracked some lenience in determining the basic requirements for
the campus colleges, and bad primary assessment that resulted in many
modifications and changes made in the project. The report also stressed that as
a result of the delays, college buildings were not launched on time, the free
maintenance period of those buildings expired while citizens lost faith in the
government's seriousness in building the new academic city. The report
explained that the delay also led to increasing the project's budget from KD
475 million, when the project was approved in 2004, to KD 1.6 billion in 2010,
then KD 2.95 billion in 2018.

Remote areas

Well-informed
sources at the Civil Service Commission (CSC) said decision number 18/2012
pertaining with incentives for employees working in remote areas added Sabah
Al-Ahmed City, Subbiya Palace and Shuaiba industrial zone to those areas,
noting that the allowance will be KD 90 monthly for employees in ranks 1-4 and
KD 75 for those in ranks 5-8.

Landmines

The Municipal
Council is scheduled to meet tomorrow to review Public Works Minister Hosam
Al-Roumi's approval of the previous meeting's minutes and a proposal made by
member Humoud Al-Enezi to discuss the landmines recently exposed by heavy rain.

Charges dropped

The public
prosecutor Dherar Al-Assoussi ordered shelving a state security report made
against bedoon (stateless) young man, and which accuses him of threatening to
murder the director of the central apparatus for illegal residents Saleh
Al-Fadhalah. The prosecutor ordered that all charges against the accused
Mohammad Al-Enezi be dropped.

Trademarks'
registrations

Minister of
Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudhan issued a ministerial decision on
publishing various trademarks through the International Organizations and
Foreign Commerce link on the ministry's website. Roudhan's resolution number
687/2018 further stipulates publishing trademarks' registration, modification,
change, cancellation or renewal at the following link: www.ifta.gov.kw. The
link is available on the ministry's website, and will be launched on December
16.

By A Saleh and
Meshaal Al-Enezi