Expats in Kuwait
New fine for phone-use while driving ‘not true’
The Public Relations and Security Media Department of Ministry of Interior has denied that a new decision was issued to impose a fine of KD 250 and suspend for three months the driving licenses of those who use mobile phones while driving.
In a press statement issued by Ministry of Interior, the department affirmed that the reports circulating on social media regarding this issue are false. It urged all Kuwaiti citizens and expatriates to confirm such information from valid sources before taking action based on them, stressing that the department usually organizes extensive awareness campaigns before implementing such decisions.
Source : Arabtimes
Kuwait News
- Events in Kuwait
- Expat forged 60 visas of domestic workers for KD 20,000
- Guidelines for salons and barber shops
- Departures to increase upto 2,500 per day
- 120,000 Residency violators still in Kuwait
- The Cabinet decides to start fourth phase from Tuesday
- New residency bill for expats
- Inbound flights … end of August
- Plan completed to resume the commercial flights at Kuwait Airport
- Temporary law permitting ‘Salary Cuts’ in Private Sector
- List of shops which are allowed to operate
- 120,000 expats will not be able to ‘renew’ residency
- 3 months extension for all expiring visas; Expats standard abroad grace period of 1 yr instead of 6 months
- Maidan Hawally (Block 11) will not be under Isolation
- Flights Reservations open for Kuwaitis along with domestic workers
- 5 phases to get back to normal Kuwait
- Following services will start from 31.05.2020
- Full lockdown in Farwaniya, Mahboula, Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, Khaitan, Hawally areas and Partial Curfew from 6pm to 6am
- Guidelines for Banks set for the resumption of work and customers services
- 10 deaths, 845 new infections of coronavirus in Kuwait, total 24,112
- Jleeb, Mahboula isolation to end
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