11 May 2016
KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday decided to postpone a scheduled debate on last month's strike by thousands of Kuwaiti oil workers for two weeks until the return of acting oil minister Anas Al-Saleh, who is travelling with the prime minister. Thousands of Kuwaiti oil workers observed work stoppages for three days last month to demand that authorities do not cut any of their salaries, benefits and incentives. The oil sector trade union officials are still discussing the issue with the government.
The Assembly also agreed to delay a probe request into the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training's overtime policy demanded by the head of the budgets committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad, claiming deliberate squandering of public funds. He also threatened not to pass the authority's budget for the current fiscal year unless the probe is launched to establish if financial violations had been committed. The delay came at the request of the government, which said it wants to study the issue before agreeing to the probe.
The Assembly also called on the government to finalize its priority issues to be debated in the Assembly as MP Jamal Al-Omar strongly criticized the government, saying he does not trust the government's ability to perform. MPs also decided to delay approving a probe into Kuwait Investment Authority.
MPs, during the listless session, also passed a set of recommendations they did not approve in the previous session for a lack of quorum after debating the impact of flying road gravel and criticizing the ministry of public works. The recommendations call on the ministry to use a new asphalt mix formulated by a British lab after passing the necessary tests and to halt the use of the previous materials in a bid to eliminate flying gravel and save public funds.
They also call for strictly inspecting asphalt factories dealing with the ministry to ensure they are qualified to produce high quality materials. They lawmakers called on the ministry to hold accountable those officials responsible for the development of appropriate asphalt mixes because they have failed to carry out their job. They called on the ministry to submit a financial program and a timetable for the repairs on the roads, provided it must be done as soon as possible to reduce the negative impact on motorists.
The recommendations urged the ministry to guarantee that the phenomenon will not be repeated after the use of the materials found appropriate by the ministry. Thy also called on the finance ministry to provide the necessary funding for the repairs of the roads, along with banning companies and contractors that caused the problem from participating in future road projects to prevent the reoccurrence of the problem.
© Kuwait Times 2016
KUWAIT: The National Assembly yesterday decided to postpone a scheduled debate on last month's strike by thousands of Kuwaiti oil workers for two weeks until the return of acting oil minister Anas Al-Saleh, who is travelling with the prime minister. Thousands of Kuwaiti oil workers observed work stoppages for three days last month to demand that authorities do not cut any of their salaries, benefits and incentives. The oil sector trade union officials are still discussing the issue with the government.
The Assembly also agreed to delay a probe request into the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training's overtime policy demanded by the head of the budgets committee MP Adnan Abdulsamad, claiming deliberate squandering of public funds. He also threatened not to pass the authority's budget for the current fiscal year unless the probe is launched to establish if financial violations had been committed. The delay came at the request of the government, which said it wants to study the issue before agreeing to the probe.
The Assembly also called on the government to finalize its priority issues to be debated in the Assembly as MP Jamal Al-Omar strongly criticized the government, saying he does not trust the government's ability to perform. MPs also decided to delay approving a probe into Kuwait Investment Authority.
MPs, during the listless session, also passed a set of recommendations they did not approve in the previous session for a lack of quorum after debating the impact of flying road gravel and criticizing the ministry of public works. The recommendations call on the ministry to use a new asphalt mix formulated by a British lab after passing the necessary tests and to halt the use of the previous materials in a bid to eliminate flying gravel and save public funds.
They also call for strictly inspecting asphalt factories dealing with the ministry to ensure they are qualified to produce high quality materials. They lawmakers called on the ministry to hold accountable those officials responsible for the development of appropriate asphalt mixes because they have failed to carry out their job. They called on the ministry to submit a financial program and a timetable for the repairs on the roads, provided it must be done as soon as possible to reduce the negative impact on motorists.
The recommendations urged the ministry to guarantee that the phenomenon will not be repeated after the use of the materials found appropriate by the ministry. Thy also called on the finance ministry to provide the necessary funding for the repairs of the roads, along with banning companies and contractors that caused the problem from participating in future road projects to prevent the reoccurrence of the problem.
© Kuwait Times 2016
