Posts Tagged ‘Al-Bawadi’
JEDDAH – The water supply to different districts in the city has been increased from 850,000 cubic meters per day to about a million cubic meters daily, the National Water Company (NWC) said on Friday.<br/> As such, the company said, 60 percent of the city’s areas are now receiving an uninterrupted supply of water. <br/> The increase in water supply, the company said, has come with the support of the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) through the operation of Al-Shu’aibah Desalination Plant. The plant pumps 150,000 cubic meters per day for the residents of Jeddah governorate, the NWC said. <br/> The easing of the water crisis has led to amending the water distribution program to the districts of Al-Muntazahat, north and south of Al-Mustaqbal Roundabout, Al-Basateen Planned District, Eastern Al-Sulaimaniah, Quwaizah, north of Jack Street, Al-Raya Planned District, Obeid Al-Muttairi Planned District, Al-Shallawi Planned District and northern and southern Kilo 14. <br/> The NWC said the coming days would see an improvement in the levels of water pumped to other districts located east of the highway in the north. They will be supplied with water gradually from Quwaizah tanks which means that they will receive a continuous supply of water. <br/> Abdullah Al-Assaf, Manager of Jeddah City Works Unit, confirmed that over 60 percent of the governorate’s districts are fed a continuous daily supply of water. The districts include those east of the highway, in southeastern Jeddah, Al-Safa, Al-Rabwah, Al-Marwa, Al-Faiha, Al-Nuzha, Al-Bawadi and Al-Faisalia.<br/> He said the quantity of water that is pumped through the network ranges between 900,000 and 950,000 cubic meters per day. With the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, the official added, the water supply from Al-Shu’aibah 3 Plant belonging to SWCC will lead to an improved water situation in the governorate. – Okaz/SG
<br/> <br/> JEDDAH – The Jeddah Governorate announced Monday that it stopped a prominent real-estate businessman from demolishing a wall at an Eid prayer ground in the city’s Al-Bawadi District.<br/> The businessman claims to have a title deed showing that he owns a 1,200-square-meter part of the prayer ground and said he obtained the document three years ago.<br/> Field teams from the Jeddah Mayoralty, accompanied by security patrols, stopped the businessman from completing the wall’s demolition and made him agree to follow up the matter with the Mayoralty. The businessman later withdrew machinery he brought to the site. The teams acted after a tip-off from Al-Bawadi residents that the businessman started razing part of the prayer ground.<br/> Neighborhood residents Awad Al-Otaibi, Jam’an Al-Zahrani, Ahmad Al-Ghamdi and Talal Al-Jad’ani said the prayer ground was set up 50 years ago, long before the area was approved for residences. The site was used as a parking lot and also for public services for residents, who set up an Eid prayer ground.<br/> They said the businessman contacted them two years ago to convince them that he owned the site, in preparation for razing part of it, but they stood firm in opposing his plan.<br/> Residents asked authorities to stop the man from taking over part of the prayer ground, which is owned by the Jeddah Mayoralty as a pubic area for the benefit of those who live nearby.<br/> Four months ago, the residents submitted a petition to the Jeddah Governorate after an engineering consultation office made a plan to offer the prayer ground for sale or construct shops on it. On the basis of this petition, the Governorate asked the Jeddah Mayoralty about the issue and learned that the prayer ground is a public area and that part of it is used for a car parking lot. Mayoralty officials also confirmed that no part of the site is under private ownership.<br/> The businessman, who said he has a construction permit from the Jeddah Mayoralty produced a title deed issued three years ago by the Shariah Court in Jeddah. – Okaz/SG
JEDDAH – Saudi mobile operator Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) announced on Friday that it finished spreading its WiMax coverage to more districts in Jeddah.
Bayanat Al-Oula, Mobilys data arm, extended coverage to the districts of Thaalbah, Al-Salam, Al-Qaryat, Al-Rawabi, Quwaizah, Southern Ubhor, Al-Bawadi, the Warehouse District, Al-Murjan, Al-Nahdah, Al-Ajwad, Al-Rehab, Eastern Baghdadia, Al-KAndara, Ghulail, Southern Housing Projects, Al-Ain, Al-Aziziah, Al-Naseem, Al-Marwah and Madaen Al Fahad.
Engineer Abdulaziz Altamami, Mobilys chief operating officer, said the company is thoroughly working on getting the entire Red Sea port city covered with WiMax.
JEDDAH – A source at the Civil Defense in Jeddah has denied claims that flood victims across the city are not getting enough to eat.
There was no shortage of food being supplied to victims housed in apartments and shelters at Al-Bawadi, Al-Nozha district and Al-Tahlyia Street, said the source.
The source said there have been complaints but this has been dissatisfaction with the method of providing the food. Some charities have allegedly provided meals to individuals. However, the Makkah Emirate is expected to reveal a plan which will govern the way food is distributed.
JEDDAH: The rains brought out the best and the worst in people. While many went to help people in distress, some saw it as a chance for fun and games with irresponsible and dangerous driving.
The same rains which caused troubles for many had made the day for others young men were celebrating the occasion of having rains in Jeddah. In the flooded streets one could see the small vehicles driving carefully while several larger ones were recklessly speeding along the inundated streets and spraying other traffic and pedestrians with water.
One of these speeders caused an accident on the citys North Corniche that killed one Pakistani worker and seriously injured two others. It took the ambulance 45 minutes to arrive.
JEDDAH – A forger of official documents and identity papers who went by the nomenclature “Willy” was arrested on Tuesday after a police raid on his home in the Al-Bawadi district discovered it had been turned into a veritable “factory of forgery”. “Willy” was first identified by officers after he was observed carrying a “suspicious package” while exiting his home, leading to an inspection of the parcel and his car which were found to contain numerous counterfeit and altered documents. – Okaz/SG
JEDDAH: A Yemeni expatriate stabbed a Saudi national to death following a violent confrontation in the early hours of Sunday in the Al-Bawadi district, Madinah newspaper reported.
The killer ran away after he saw the man lying in a pool of blood, although he later claimed he was acting in self-defense.
According to eyewitnesses the victim had been suffering from a mental problem and he had been making a lot of noise in the neighborhood on the day of his death.
JEDDAH: The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice arrested a 28-year-old Saudi in a sting operation in Al-Bawadi district in Jeddah on charges he committed homosexual acts and posted his violations on the Internet.
The youth used to attract teenagers to him and tempt them to commit immoral acts. He also recorded his acts and uploaded them on the Internet, spokesman of commissions Makkah province branch Salem Al-Sarawani told Arab News on Monday. The commission has been striving to locate the man over the past two years but only recently could identify him and arrest him.
JEDDAH – Police in Jeddah are searching for a woman of Somali nationality in connection with the killing of a Somali man on Thursday morning in the district of Al-Bawadi. The incident occurred following an argument involving the wife of the murdered man and the brother of the alleged killer at the two-roomed apartment where the four resided. The victim of the killing reportedly returned to the apartment to find the brother of his killer attacking his wife, and when he stepped in to break up the argument he in turn was attacked by the mans wife with a kitchen knife. The man died shortly after arriving at hospital, while his killer fled with her husband to an unknown destination. – Okaz/SG
JEDDAH – The Department of Health Licenses of Jeddah Health Affairs shut down illegal medical centers in Al-Bawadi district Wednesday after discovering several violations of the rules governing health establishments.
“We closed these centers because they did not follow the regulations of the Ministry of Health regarding the examination of foreign workers, and because of the poor supervision of technical and administrative staff which led to the issuing of incorrect examination results,” said Dr. Sami Badawood, Director of Health Affairs Management.