MP Khalaf Dumaitheer

KUWAIT: MP Khalaf
Dumaitheer recently donated the sum of $10,000 plus a monthly salary to the
family of Lebanese man George Rozaiq, who killed himself outside his children's
private school in Lebanon. Notably, Rozaiq self-immolated in protest over
depriving his daughter the right to get a score sheet because he had not paid
the school fees. He died in hospital with over 90 percent burns on his body.

Replacement plan

The Ministry of Education
(MoE) administrative affairs sector urged assistant undersecretaries to prepare
and hand over lists of expat teachers, social workers and office porters to be
included in the replacement plans so that proper measures could be taken at
least three months prior to terminating their contracts. Notably, the Civil
Service Commission (CSC) had urged MoE in November to terminate the contracts
of 1,186 expat teachers and administrative staff members to replace them with
Kuwaitis.

Vacant positions

Minister of Awqaf
and Islamic Affairs and Minister of State for Municipal Affairs Fahd Al-Shula
expressed plans to fill vacant assistant undersecretaries' positions with
ministry staff members, noting that the ministry of awqaf is full of qualified
and skilled staff members capable of achieving its vision. Shula added that
during his meeting with the ministry's supreme planning committee, he asked to
adjust the charters of official missions and conferences abroad in a way that
guarantees staff rights and prevent profiteering and favoritism. "Missions
will be restricted to Kuwaiti employees only," he underlined. 

Extra credit

In a proactive
measure to handle the state budget accounts and related parliamentary
agreements, the government referred two bills to open an extra credit for the
oil and health ministries in the fiscal year 2018-2019, which allows them to
withdraw KD 1,219,000,000 from the state's general reserves to settle up the
two accounts. Head of the parliamentary budgets and final statements committee
MP Adnan Abdulsamad said the committee would consult the State Audit Bureau on
this extra credit prior to discussing the government's proposal. Abdulsamad
added that with the extra sum, the sum declared by the finance minister as the
new budget would increase by KD 1,219,000,000.

Sustainable
development

Secretary General
of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development Khaled Mahdi urged over 20
government bodies to submit the information they have concerning executing
sustainable development goals to prepare Kuwait's first report and submit it to
the UN in July. Speaking while presiding the sustainable development
committee's meeting which included representatives from various government
bodies, NGOs, the private sector and state auditing bodies, Mahdi hailed a
number of government bodies that have already submitted their data, including
the defense, justice and electricity and water ministries, in addition to the
National Guard, Central Bank, Kuwait University, the Public Authority for
Manpower, Kuwait Fire Service Directorate and the Kuwait Credit Bank.

List of
disabilities

Head of the
kinetic disability assessment committee at the Public Authority for the
Disabled Dr Salem Ali Al-Kandari said the authority is fully committed to
international standards on assessing a disability by specialized doctors who
thoroughly examine the patient and their medical reports and tests in addition
to their case history. Responding to an inquiry about disabled persons,
specifically on requests to list spinal-related problems among the list of
disabilities, Kandari added that some disc pains are curable except for those
which have an impact on the spinal cord and nerves, as some of those may lead
to paralysis and affect the patient's daily routine.

By A Saleh and
Meshaal Al-Enezi