The Municipal Council said the Public Prosecution has summoned a number of senior officials of the Kuwait Municipality and the Municipal Council against the background of accusing a secretary for manipulating fingerprints attendance system for the benefit of an employee who is holding a supervisory position in the council, reports Al-Qabas daily.

The Director General of the Jahra Security Directorate has ordered the deportation of an Indian who threatened to commit suicide by jumping from a pedestrian bridge in Al-Naeem at dawn on Jan 1, reports Al- Anba daily.

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Friday released initial assistance to the family of an overseas Filipino worker (OFW) from South Cotabato province who was killed by her employer in Kuwait late last month.

The Court of Cassation sentenced a 40-year-old Lebanese woman to four-year imprisonment with hard labor for killing her 60-year-old mother.

As the countdown to herald in the New Year 2020, a young Kuwaiti who is believed to be not more than 23 years old is said to have ended his life by hanging himself inside his house in Salwa, reports Al-Anba daily.

A Kuwaiti woman in her 40s has been arrested at the airport and referred to the General Department of Drug Control for attempting to smuggle 12 ampoules of liquid hashish, reports Al- Anba daily.

An unidentified man has been arrested by the police for allegedly molesting a domestic servant when his wife was away from home, reports Al- Rai daily.

The Court of Cassation sentenced an expatriate to 20 months in prison, with hard labor, fined him 1,000 dinars, and ordered his deportation from the country after serving the sentence for misusing phone, reports Al-Rai daily.

The Criminal Court, chaired by Judge Abdullah Al-Othman, has acquitted a Kuwaiti man and other individuals of laundering KD210,000 and offering loan with interest,says Al-Seyassah Arabic daily.

General Administration of the Residence Affairs Investigation over the past few weeks has arrested a number of expatriates who had entered the country on new visas after the records of their fingerprints were allegedly destroyed by ‘unknown’ persons to help them enter the country or some of them had mutilated their fingers after they were administratively deported for committing crimes and banned from entering the country, reports Al- Anba daily.