The Public Prosecution has ordered the arrest of an unidentified caretaker of a building in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh, reports Al-Rai daily.

Following the referral of an Arab mandoub and the owner of a company to the Public Prosecution for selling hundreds of commercial visas to expatriates, the Public Prosecution studied the company’s file and discovered that it had hired expatriate laborers for begging, reports Al-Anba daily.

The Criminal Court sentenced an Egyptian expatriate to 20 years in prison and imposed a fine of AED 102 million (about KD 8.2 million). AED 51 million was retrieved from a deceased Kuwaiti defendant as the total amount embezzled from 2007 to 2012 in the Military Attaché Office of Kuwaiti Embassy in Abu Dhabi out of the money allocated by Ministry of Defense for medical treatment.

Kuwait Airways has taken delivery of the third plane (A320) after being flown from the Airbus plant in the German city of Hamburg.

The Ministry of Health is taking precautionary measures at a number of outlets in the country after the new coronavirus has reportedly spread in a number of Chinese cities and transmitted to some regions of the world infecting hundreds of people, reports Al-Anba daily.

The website of the Kuwait Fire Service Directorate has been hacked, said according to the local newspaper, Alanba.

Head of the Federation of Arab Engineers and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Kuwait Society of Engineers Faisal Al-Atel affirmed that the society rejected about 11,000 unaccredited certificates since the start of the application of professional tests for expatriate engineers in March 2018, revealing that, “The vast majority of the holders of these certificates are Asian nationals.”

Minister of Finance and acting Minister of State for Economic Affairs Maryam Al-Aqeel denied that government has any tendency to reduce or cut down subsidies, stressing the idea of compromising the citizen’s pocket is out of the question but it is impossible for them to enjoy and fortify their legal positions, reports Al-Qabas daily.

The Ministry of Interior has broadcast a video clip in the social media listing the documents which are required to complete transactions on its websites, reports Al-Anba daily.

Minister of Information and State Minister for Youth Affairs Mohammad Al- Jabri revealed that 440 Kuwaitis resigned from the ministry during the period from 2016 to 2018, reports Al-Rai daily. He clarified that these employees resigned based on their own desire, and mostly without specifying any reasons.