Kuwait Fire Service Directorate yesterday sealed a hotel in Salmiya apparently over fire safety concerns.

April 6: Several political activists and citizens Thursday organized a public protest in Mubarakiya area to demand permanent proscription of the National Assembly, with placards petitioning for the referral of public funds embezzlers to prosecution and suspension of citizenship law amendment, in addition to Cabinet dissolution.

April 5: About 240 expatriates discovered after two years that they entered Kuwait upon work permits to work on a farm of a Kuwaiti and now are facing deportation because the Kuwaiti allegedly tampered with the ‘estimated needs of the workers’ and imported more than the required number of laborers, reports Al- Rai daily.

April 4: Several employees of the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) held a sitin at the headquarters of the ministry to protest against the suspension of travel allowance for employees working in distant areas and exclusion of the allowance from the salary certificate.

April 4: Personnel from the so-called ‘Quartet Committee’ formed upon a decision issued by the Council of Ministers organized a security campaign against labor and residence law violators in Al-Hassawi, reports Al-Rai daily.

April 3: An Ethiopian housemaid who appeared in a video clip made by her sponsor and circulated on the social media which shows the maid attempting to jump to her death from the seventh floor of a residential building, is seen in another clip lying on a hospital bed, reports Al-Anba daily.

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April 3: Some families especially those with girls suffering from severe mental disabilities force such girls to undergo hysterectomy when they reach puberty under the pretext of fears over their future and social reputation, reports Al-Qabas daily.

The age of social media has somehow altered humanity, in which some people find it more important to upload photos or videos that will surely garner likes and shares. That is just the case of a maid in Kuwait who’s hanging on to dear life from a seventh floor window. Instead of helping her, a woman who saw her filmed her situation.

April 2, (KUNA): Minister of Commerce and Industry Khaled Al-Roudan on Sunday referred several livestock importers to the Public Prosecutor upon directives from His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. They have agreed together to suspend importing live sheep for a certain period in a way to send prices sky-high on the local market.