There’s an article on KUNA’s website on Kuwait’s nine islands and about how they’re very important to Kuwait culturally. Near the end of the article this following paragraph caught my attention:
The committee aims at declaring the islands as reserve areas, where entry procedures would be arranged in coordination with bodies concerned in the country such as Kuwait Environment Protection Society (KEPS), Kuwait University (KU), Cabinet’s security decisions’ follow-up committee, Public Authority for Agriculture Affairs and Fish Resources (PAAFR), Ministry of Transpirations, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Defense, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR), and Kuwait Volunteer Work Center, added Al-Enezi.
If the Kuwaiti islands all get declared as natural reserves then no one will be able to go there without permission and basically killing Kubbar as a weekend getaway hotspot. Not sure what happens to Failaka, they might just restrict access to certain parts of the island. Check out the full article on KUNA’s website [Here]
On a side note has the quality of the English on the KUNA website gone down recently or has it always been this bad? The last two articles I’ve read there have just been terribly written as if they were translated with Google first before being edited.
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11 replies on “No more Kubbar on weekends?”
Maybe we Kuwaitis need to be punished for trashing Kubbar every weekend
Re your side note; maybe KUNA is recruiting from Kuwait Times 😉
+1 on the Kuwait Times comment
I agree with Zaydoun when it comes to trashing places, but would it still be OK to tie off the boat to the mooring buoys. I was never the one to actually step foot on the island itself and always preferred to set up the Fiesta Island instead!
only just can say… we are f**d up again..!!!
hopefully the next reserve will be Kuwait city and gulf road…
You’re sarcasm is reality. They want all restutanta in residential,areas and coops to close by,midnight. That’s one step closer…
OMG!for the people who stuck in summer over here,where we should go?Sulibikhat!!
Ahhh Kubbar, memories of heading out at night, camping on the beach and burning our butts off when the blazing sun came out and the water temp was like 90 degrees and I was the only sober one to remember. The beach was always full of garbage and glass but the water was amazing. ‘What happens on Kubbar stays on Kubbar’ hehehe
Never been there. But judging by the looks of those who go there gave me an idea.
do tell some of the stories :p
Fucked up people with fucked up mentalities and minds fucking us up and everything in this country.
for fuck sake half the islands are sinking let them enjoy it while we have it.
…but it can be good for the environment. But of course we are talking about the same people who tried to,protect one island by turning it into a concrete island and contaminating the bottom of the sea by dumping all construction waste in it.
sorry about the f words… I was listening to Debra Morgan talk all day,long for the past week!
Then it’s good the f word was all you used.
Yeah, turn gulf road in to a reserve area as there is plenty of rare species roaming there especially at night.