KUWAIT: The criminal court yesterday sentenced a citizen to 10 years in prison with labor for joining and fighting with the Nusra Front in Syria. The defendant faced charges of committing hostile activities against Syria by joining the group and pledging allegiance to the organization's leader Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani, and undergoing a two-month military training course after infiltrating into Syria through Turkey. Meanwhile, the court of misdemeanor yesterday accepted a contest filed by one of the defendants accused in the 2007 power emergency plan case and acquitted him. Notably, the court recently sentenced 15 (out of 16) former government officials, including former MEW minister Ahmad Al-Jassar to two years in prison with labor, KD 1,000 to suspend the sentence and a KD 20,000 fine each.

MPW projects

Well-informed Ministry of Public Works (MPW) sources at the development projects sector said that the total projects scheduled in this year's budget reached 109, including construction, roads, drainage and maintenance mega projects with a total budget of KD 511 million. The sources added that record achievements had been made in these projects and that some of them were about to conclude and be handed over to MPW. Meanwhile, well-informed sources at the Ministry of Electricity and Water's (MEW) power and water desalination sector said that the ministry had allocated KD 6 million to pay shift allowances to the sector's employees for the current fiscal year.

Inspection

Responding to complaints made by the Green Line group environmentalists, Capital municipality teams inspected the coastline between Green Island and Al-Salam beach. The six-hour inspection resulted in fining five violators for barbequing along the beach and arresting a number of peddlers. The fines varied between KD 5 to KD 100.

By Meshaal Al-Enezi