Category: Local News

  • 300 fee for family visa

    300 fee for family visa

    Director General of the General Department for Residence Affairs, Major-General Talal Ma’arafi, has explained it is proposed to impose KD 300 fee for family visa other than the wife and siblings. He added, fees will be announced once approved by the Fatwa and Legislation Department. Ma’arafi said the regulations include several amendments in order to increase the number of visitors to the country.

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  • Procedure completed to replace expats

    Procedure completed to replace expats

    Director of Fatwa and Legislation Department Advisor Salah Al-Mesad said the sector has completed procedures to replace expatriates with Kuwaitis in administrative positions. He requested Civil Service Commission (CSC) to nominate Kuwaitis for employment in three disciplines, reports Al-Qabas daily.

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  • Fake Coffee for Sale

    Fake Coffee for Sale

    The Misdemeanor Court presided over by Judge Al-Duwaihi Al-Duwaihi ordered a man to pay fine worth KD 500 for putting up for sale counterfeit famous branded coffee products, says Al-Seyassah.

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  • Travel ban of 141,458 Expatriates and Kuwaitis

    Travel ban of 141,458 Expatriates and Kuwaitis

    A total of 141,458 people (Kuwaitis and expatriates) were barred from travel during the first nine months of 2017 according to the Statistics and Research Department of the Ministry of Justice.

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  • Deportee will be deport again

    Deportee will be deport again

    The Ahmadi police have arrested a 44-year-old citizen of Congo for infiltrating into the country who had earlier been deported from the country. The man was reportedly picked up on suspicion while walking along a road. He has been referred for deportation.

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  • Interview of Egyptian, beaten by Kuwaiti

    Interview of Egyptian, beaten by Kuwaiti

    Waheed Mahmoud al-Rifaei Hassan, an Egyptian worker for a Kuwaiti motor repair shop who was hospitalized after being brutally beaten by a Kuwaiti customer on Tuesday for allegedly informing him that the staff were on a break, has spoken out on Thursday about his ordeal.

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  • Kuwait will experience the several astronomical phenomena next week

    Kuwait will experience the several astronomical phenomena next week

    Kuwait Science Club announced that there will be several astronomical phenomena next week, among them the Geminid meteor shower, coupling of Mars with the moon and coupling of Jupiter with the moon.

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  • 1400 caught in raids

    1400 caught in raids

    Under the supervision of Acting Assistant Undersecretary for Public Security Affairs at the Ministry of Interior Major General Ibrahim Al-Tarrah, the security directorates carried out surprise security campaigns which resulted in the arrest of 300 people wanted by law in connection with criminal and civil offences, reports Al-Anba daily.

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  • Three Kuwaiti women arrested

    Three Kuwaiti women arrested

    Police have taken into custody three young Kuwaiti women and are looking for their three lovers, who reportedly had ‘fun’ inside an apartment in Mahboula and after the men got drunk the girls robbed them and escaped, reports Al-Rai daily.

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  • Roads to close on 5th December 2017

    Roads to close on 5th December 2017

    The Interior Ministry announced Sunday that some roads will blocked on Tuesday due to the arrival of several delegations partaking in the 38th Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) Summit.

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