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Apartments vacant as expatriates leave Kuwait amid hardship
Tenants renegotiate amid
slump in real estate sector
By Chidi Emmanuel
From Fahaheel to downtown Kuwait City, signs advertising apartments for rents can be found in abundance. Rising costs of living, stagnant wages for expatriates and growing anti-expat government policies are driving foreigners to leave the country.
According to the Central Statistics…
ContinuePosted on July 8, 2019 at 2:09pm
Expatriates struggle to make
ends meet as hardship bites
By Chidi Emmanuel
It is always a solemn moment whenever Tina comes home and doesn't see her six-year-old daughter Rosaline. "Life without her is just empty," she said as she narrated her ordeal. According to Tina, life went from bad to worse when her husband lost his well-paid job last year. "Things became very hard for us. We could neither pay Rosie's school fees nor get her a nanny. So we…
ContinuePosted on March 23, 2019 at 5:11pm
Scammers calling, texting! Beware
Scammers change style and tactics
By Chidi Emmanuel
When Favor Tata, an African expat, got a call last month from someone posing as a customer care representative at one of the telecommunication companies in Kuwait, the offer was too enticing to refuse and she saw no reason for not handing over some of her bank details. "Congratulations! You (your phone number) have just won a sum of KD 10,000 through a draw. We just…
ContinuePosted on August 18, 2018 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment
Living together and
working together?
With a surge in cases of divorce in Kuwait against the backdrop of growing financial hardships, Kuwait Times weighed the pros and cons of working with your spouse. In order to have a better understanding, spouses were asked if they would like to work together - either in the same…
ContinuePosted on April 28, 2018 at 5:28pm
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