TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013
LOCAL
Foul play suspected in police officer’s death ‘Missing’ man found in jail KUWAIT: Investigations are on to determine the circumstances leading to the death of a police officer in a case now classified as murder. The Criminal Investigations General Department officer was pronounced dead on Sunday in a Surra home that he shared with his family. Crime scene investigators found evidence of foul play on the scene, according to the police report. The body was taken for an autopsy to determine the cause of death. Fatal crash A Kuwaiti male driver was fatally injured in an accident on the King Fahad Road on Sunday and later succumbed to his injuries at the Adan Hospital where he was rushed after paramedics found him in a critical condition. A case was filed at the Abdullah Port police station. Investigations were on to determine what led the man’s sports utility vehicle (SUV) to lose balance and overturn. ‘Missing’ Kuwaiti A report about a man reported missing by his family recently led detectives to the discovery that the man was actually under arrest for drugrelated charges. Search for the 38-year-old
Kuwaiti had been on ever after his brother reported his absence at the Adan police station a few days ago. Detectives later found the man in a lock up at the Drug Control General Department where he had been detained by Kuwait International Airport officers since Saturday for being in an inebriated state and possessing drugs. Boy shot A teenager who was shot in his left arm when he was standing outside his house collapsed and was rushed to a hospital by his father was later discovered to have been a victim of an air rifle shot. His father, who was at hand when the victim fell to the ground and writhed in pain, rushed him quickly to the Adan Hospital. The man, a serviceman with the Ministry of Defense, reported the case to the Sabah Al-Salem police station and provided a medical report about the surgery that his son underwent in order to remove the foreign object from his left arm. Investigations are on to identify and arrest the shooter. Newborn found Jahra police are trying to identify the parents
of a newborn which was found abandoned at a sidewalk along a street in the area. Jahra police station officers were approached on Saturday by a Kuwaiti man carrying a baby which was found on the Al-Naseem Street. The baby was taken to the Jahra Hospital for medical attention while a case was filed for investigations. Work mishap A construction worker was critically injured when he fell off a highrise building in Khaitan on Saturday. Co-workers rushed him to the Jahra Hospital where he was diagnosed with a serious head trauma. The victim, an Egyptian in his forties, reportedly fell from a scaffold to the ground. A case was file for investigations. Caught in the act Salmiya police apprehended a senior citizen along with a young woman after they were found in a compromising state along the Arabian Gulf Road recently. The Kuwaiti man in his early sixties and the Kuwaiti woman in her twenties were found in a car indulging in an illicit act when patrol officers approached them. The two were taken to the Salmiya police station and charged for public indecency.
AL urges retrieving Palestinian relics stolen by Israel CAIRO: The Arab League has called on the international cultural organizations to act for retrieving the Palestinian books and relics stolen by the Israeli occupation authorities. The League’s department of Palestine and occupied Arab territories affairs, urged, in a press release, the international community to adopt a decisive stance against the major robberies of Palestinian heritage including boycott of any Israeli organization or individuals involved in the stealth. Some 40,000 Palestinian books were robbed from Jerusalem alone and the rest 30,000 books were robbed from Jaffa, Al-Naserah and other towns in the West Bank; they are kept at the National Library of Israel, according to the statement. The League called for an international action against this crime, highlighting the need to return the books to Palestine immediately as per the provisions of the concerned international law.
The call follows reports about the discovery of a large usurpation of the contents of Palestinian public and private libraries in 1947 by the Haganah, a Jewish paramilitary organization in what was active during the British Mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948 and became the core of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) later on. In 2011 Israeli-Dutch filmmaker Benny Brunner released a documentary on “ The Great Book Robbery” which documents the Jewish usurpation of the Palestinian heritage. The documentary is inspired by Gish Amit’s book titled “Salvage or Plunder? Israel’s ‘Collection’ of Private Palestinian Libraries in West Jerusalem.” Brunner stated that he was “stunned” at the appropriation of 70,000 books by the State of Israel during the 1948 Palestinian exodus as significant to the loss of Palestinian cultural heritage and decided to make a film on the topic. — KUNA
300 muggings reported in Kuwait last year
ABK hosts special National Day event at Fantasy World KUWAIT: Marking the occasion of the Kuwaiti national holidays, ABK collaborated with Fantasy World toy stores to offer their clients and families a special celebratory event. The event, which took place on Feb 25 and 26 at the Fantasy World Al-Rai
store, provided a fun and entertaining atmosphere where the families could show their love for Kuwait through various activities. The event consisted of various competitions, both educational and recreational, and artistic activities for
children, such as coloring and decorating replicas of the Kuwait Towers in their own way. Children who participated in the activities won vouchers worth 15 KD, valid for use in any of Fantasy World’s branches. For more information and
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Injaz, HP team up for Social Innovation Relay KUWAIT: Injaz-Kuwait and HP have kicked off their Social Innovation Relay on Feb 3, with 40,000 high school students from 19 countries expected to compete and 1000 students locally in Kuwait. Empowered by HP technology and HP employees acting as coaches, mentors and judges, students will work to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, from energy consumption to expanding access to education. “Today’s job market is more competi-
Rana Al-Nibari tive than ever, and employers expect high levels of entrepreneurial and information and communication technologyskills from the next generation of employees,” stated Caroline Jenner, CEO JA-YE Europe.”Unfortunately, many students do not have the opportunity to learn and develop in these areas, leaving them to struggle in the real world.” The Social Innovation Relay is an innovative program built on HP and JA-YE’s 20-year partnership designed to impart essential skills for the workforce to secondary school students in an interactive and meaningful way. Connected by HP’s cutting-edge technologies, students around the world can collaborate with HP mentors to develop business concepts that address a social challenge. During its first two years,the Social Innovation Relay reached more than 30,000 students at 1,000 schools in13 countries across the worldand engaged more than 200 HP employees. Last year’s winning team from South Africa, the Emulsified Environmentalists, developed a
solar-powered lamp concept from recycled materials that brings light to disadvantaged communities, while also eliminating the environmental and health damage caused by traditional kerosene lamps. This winning idea responded to both electricity shortages and growing respiratory problems in South Africa. Students,mentored by HP volunteers, either face-to-face or virtually,may enter in teams of three to five participants to develop solutions related to education, health, environment, technology, poverty, economic development, human rights and energy. The best 20 solutions will be shortlisted. HP will then assess the projects and choose the top 10 teams in April. Teams will continue to develop their ideas, and the winning team fromKuwaitwill compete globally in an online final againstthe othernational winning teams worldwide in July. Injaz-Kuwait’s CEO, Rana AlNibari, said, “Finding solutions to social challenges is critical to the advancement of societies, whether these challenges impact us directly or indirectly at an individual level. Guiding young and fresh minds to finding solutions to these challenges does not only help them develop entrepreneurial skills, but also builds a larger vision of the correlation between the challenges and the various life aspects they impact. Searching for solutions in a global competition is the ideal setting to stimulate students in pushing themselves. “We are honored to be part of such initiatives and to be the only INJAZ Arab member nation to partner with HP’s global innovation initiative. We are confident that we will be seeing great innovations coming
out of Kuwait in the next five months.” Aiming to reach 40,000 students in 19countries this year, the Social Innovation Relay is the largest global educational initiative based on a blend of virtual and face-to-face mentoring. Specifically designed to increase access to entrepreneurship education, the program provides young people with hands-on skills and entrepreneurial expertise to compete in the 21st century workforce. . As part of the SIR program, student teams are expected to develop business ideas that respond to real world social challenges. This involves teamwork, decisionmaking and problemsolving - skills thatthe majority of respondents reported had improved as a result of participating in the SIR.Mentors from HP help the final teams develop and refine their concepts via online and face-to-face mentoring. Founded in 2005, Ijaz-Kuwait is a non-profit, non-governmental organization driven by Kuwait’s private sector. Through strategic partnerships with Kuwait’s business and education sectors, and with the help of qualified and dedicated volunteers, INJAZ delivers educational programs on entrepreneurial and leadership skills aimed at inspiring and educating future generations. Since 2005, Injaz-Kuwait has reached over 25,000 students from more than 25 schools and universities, thanks to over 800 volunteers-and growing. Injaz-Kuwait connects corporate volunteers to mentor youth through JA programs. Volunteers undergo orientation and training before they embark on their mentoring experience to enhance their readiness as well as performance during mentoring sessions to inspire the youth.
Drop in grades of students KUWAIT: The grades of a number of students in different educational phases across various schools have dropped after a decision as per which wards of teachers were prohibited from studying in schools where their parents taught, sources revealed. Sources said that the ministry wanted the children to be selfsufficient and that was why this decision was taken by Minister of Education Dr Nayef Al-Hajref. The drop in grades was expected
since it was noticed that the grades of students who studied in the same schools where their parents taught were unusually high. Once these students or parents were shifted to a different school, the actual educational level of the students came to the fore. Sources said that ministry would continue with the decision in order to ensure that a truly educated generation able to serve Kuwait comes out of these schools.
KUWAIT: Three hundred cases of mugging were reported in police stations across Kuwait in 2012, a local newspaper reported yesterday quoting annual statistics released recently by the Criminal Evidence General Department. Meanwhile, security sources who provided the statistical report to Al-Qabas newspaper noted that crime involving robbery by force saw an increase last year compared to 2011. The report showed that 147 of the cases filed in 2012 were classified as felonies, compared to 153 of misdemeanour. Among suspects identified and arrested in the reported cases were police officers who according to the sources “have been convicted through evidence” for tar-
geting expatriate residents. The insiders who spoke on the condition of anonymity said that security presence needed to be increased around the country, especially in areas like Jleeb Al-Shuyiukh, Khaitan and Taima from where a majority of mugging cases were reported. The most common modus operandi of robbers was impersonating a police detective and snatch away wallets after intimidating pedestrians. In some cases, such culprits even robbed the residents after breaking into their homes. The sources explained that a majority of crimes were committed by juveniles and unemployed men, drug addicts and people with history of criminal activity.