General Customs Department (GCD) has issued instructions to ban shrimp fishing in the Kuwaiti territorial waters until Sept 1, 2017, reports Al-Shahed daily.

The National Assembly on Wednesday approved the proposal to amend the Juvenile Law for the age of maturity to be 18 years old as it was before, instead of 16 years old. The amended first paragraph of Article One of the bill defines a juvenile as anyone below 18 years old while the second paragraph states that juvenile delinquents are those engaged in acts punishable by law and whose ages range from seven years old to not more than 18 years old.

Some roads will be closed between today and Saturday as part of special security precautions during the visit by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman Bin Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Interior announced on Thursday.

Public Authority for Manpower will suspend all activities, except renewals and final cancellation visa for traveling, at the labor departments in the last 10 days of this month to carry out annual inventory process, reports Al-Anba daily quoting informed sources.

Traffic movement came to a halt on most roads due to heavy rains, accompanied by thunder and lightning, that hit Kuwait Thursday. Assistant Undersecretary for Maintenance Affairs at Ministry of Public Works, Eng. Mohammed Bin Nakhi said citizens and expatriates can call the hotline number 150 to report any damage to the drainage system.

The Kuwait Meteorology Department raised a 'Thunder Rain' warning for the coming 12 hours with scattered rain that might be thundery at times with south easterly wind that might exceeds 50 km/h over some areas

The Kuwait's Civil Service Commission (CSC) has declared Thursday, December 8th 2016, as Public Holiday to mark the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, referring to an order by the cabinet

Kuwaitis head to the polls tomorrow to elect a new 50-seat national assembly to replace the outgoing house which was dissolved by the Amir after almost three and a half years, becoming the longest-surviving assembly since 2003.