Posts Tagged as ‘kuwait’

March 11, 2009

Customer service at the BKME is great

Well I had to go to the Bank ( Bank of Kuwait and Middle East KSC) to get my ATM debit cards exchanged as they were issuing latest ones with built in chips etc. The first confusion was where to go to collect as personal account was in a branch far from my office and [...]

February 21, 2009

Possibility of elderly parents of expats…

An article in the local daily Arab Times indicated that officials are considering banning the issuing of visas to expatriates’ parents, saying that doing so will reduce pressure on local hospitals.
Well, well… I don’t have hospital figures but this is something interesting… mind you that the proposal is made by the Ministry of Interior to [...]

February 1, 2009

money problems

Everyday, you hear that companies are closing, people are loosing jobs, salaries are being deducted.. same as all over the world.
Something new today was that one of the banks started refusing to open L/c’s for import companies which had any outstanding amounts no matter how big the company, even though they had valid facility [...]