Day: April 28, 2024

Based on information and field follow-up by the agency, the Customs Police, in cooperation with the competent authority in the Environmental Quality Authority, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Municipality of Qalqilya, today, Sunday, seized a number of trucks loaded with waste coming from Israel to be buried in citizens’ lands in Qalqilya Governorate, and it is considered waste. Dangerous to the Palestinian environment.

In view of this, the competent authority decided to return the seized items to their source and properly complete the legal procedures

Source: Maan News Agency

Amman: The number of government services that have been digitized reached 1173 by the end of the first quarter of this year, accounting for 49 percent of the total services, according to the achievement report of the Executive Program of the Economic Modernization Vision in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector.

The report showed that the number of government services that were digitized during the first quarter of this year only reached 213 out of 480 services for 2024.

Regarding the “Youth, Technology, and Jobs” program, the report indicated that 22 companies were contracted to receive support by granting salaries within the Jordan Growth Project “Kafaat”, 7 companies were also contracted to receive support in the expansion process within the Jordan Growth Project “Business Development,” 2 companies were contracted to start training beneficiaries to leverage the free business platforms, and 48 startups were selected within the Startup Support Project.

The report pointed to the start o
f employing the 165 beneficiaries who have been trained so far within the training project through the Digital Skills Association, and the completion of training 4 batches of students within the job skills project (communication and interview skills) for IT students and scientific disciplines interested in obtaining jobs in the ICT sector. Training was started at Yarmouk University and Ghor es-Safi in cooperation with the British Council to train 100 beneficiaries in the cloud computing field.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: – The Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places has warned that performing Hajj can only be done through Hajj visas, stressing that using visas other than those officially approved is illegal.

A ministry statement on Sunday pointed out that the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah has monitored advertisements for companies and campaigns as well as fake accounts on social networks claiming to organize Hajj at attractive prices, calling for caution against dealing with such campaigns and companies.

The Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah had previously clarified that Umrah, tourism, work, family visit, transit and other types of visas do not qualify their holders to perform Hajj, calling on everyone to abide by the regulations and laws imposed by the official authorities organizing Hajj, and not to get carried away behind fake companies and offices which claim to have commercial Hajj campaigns and other names.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: The Arab Parliament called for initiating an urgent and independent international investigation into the mass graves discovered in the Shifa and Nasser medical complexes, following the withdrawal of the Israeli occupation forces from some areas in the Gaza Strip.

The Arab Parliament called on the international community, human rights organizations, the United Nations and the Security Council to take all necessary legal measures to hold the occupation accountable for its crimes and massacres in accordance with the standards of international law and international humanitarian law and to bring those responsible to justice as war criminals.

He explained that the magnitude of the massacres and heinous crimes of the occupation against Palestinians, including children, women and the elderly, in the Gaza Strip raises serious doubts and questions about the ability of the UN system to protect civilians, especially since the massacres of the occupation represent war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
and violate all resolutions that call for the protection of civilians during wars.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: HRH Princess Muna Al Hussein, Honorary Global Ambassador of Alzheimer’s Disease International (ADI) Organization, participated in the opening of the 36th Global Conference of Alzheimer’s Disease International in Krakow, Poland.

In a speech, Princess Muna said that Alzheimer’s disease affects millions of people around the world, but its impact on people in the Middle East and North Africa is limited.

She called for the development of a national plan to address Alzheimer’s disease in Jordan.

HRH emphasized her commitment to lend her voice to Alzheimer’s issues, affected people, families, and caregivers at the Krakow conference.

Princess Muna is the first Alzheimer’s ambassador from the Middle East, and the fourth ambassador after Queen Silvia of Sweden, Queen Sofia of Spain, and former President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera of Costa Rica.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 55 million people are living with Alzheimer’s globally, with the number likely to rise to 139 million by 2050.

In
the Middle East and North Africa, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s is currently around 3 million and is expected to increase by 367 percent to more than 13.8 million cases by 2050.

Jordan faces challenges in dealing with Alzheimer’s disease, including a lack of community awareness of the disease and a lack of available resources for diagnosis, treatment, and care, The government and health associations are making efforts to raise awareness of the disease and provide more resources.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Amman: The Board of Commissioners of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) approved the timetable for the 2024 parliamentary elections for the 20th Lower House, according to an IEC statement on Sunday.

According to the timetable, May 26 will be the date to start the legal procedures for the 2024 parliamentary elections for the 20th Lower House by requesting voter records from the Department of Civil Status and Passports. They will then be presented by the IEC as preliminary tables of voters in June 2, distributed on the map of the 1,600 polling centers.

The IEC indicated that in a session chaired by its President, Musa Maaytah, the timetable for the upcoming elections was reviewed in terms of its conformity with the legal periods related to the date of the polling day scheduled for September 10.

According to the timetable, all stages of objections and appeals to the preliminary voter lists will end on July 24, and will be published as final lists after their approval by the Board of Commissioners.

Th
e board also decided that the date for submitting candidates’ applications for local and general constituencies (party list) will be on July 30, for a period of three days.

The electoral campaigning phase begins after the acceptance of candidacy applications from the Board of Commissioners in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the law on August 9, for a period of one month before the polling day.

The IEC statement noted that its president gave directions to the Directorate of Electoral Operations to finalize the oath-taking procedures in the main electoral committees for 18 local districts and one general district.

He set a time-bound plan to train field cadres and volunteers on the executive instructions, and to train polling center committees on polling and counting process within the models prepared by the IEC.

Source: Jordan News Agency