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KUWAIT CITY, April 30: On Tuesday 26th April, Kuwait English School celebrated the many achievements of its senior school students at the Arraya Ballroom in the Courtyard Marriot Hotel.

The evening was an opportunity to recognise the amazing accomplishments made by our senior school students. In an event that celebrated the successful teaching and learning at Kuwait English School, students, teacher, senior man-agement and special guests had the op-portunity to join together in celebration.

The welcome address by Madam Naela Al Saddah, School Vice-Chair-man, thanked the students and school staff for their “support” and “ongoing effort”. Madam Naela then presented the proud students of Years 7, 8 and 9 with their subject prizes.

Mrs Janet Carew, senior school prin-cipal, then addressed the audience. She congratulated the students for having “succeeded in becoming their best”. She highlighted that the students had met the school vision which is to inspire, chal-lenge and encourage and that “Kuwait English School was preparing students to be able to cope with the challenges ahead”. In her closing remarks, Mrs Carew thanked parents and teachers by noting that “education is a three-way operation between parents, teacher and students” and that the students should “make this a stepping stone to further success”.

FoundationsGuest speaker, Mrs Hosnia Al

Hashem, Vice-President of Kufpec (Kuwait foreign petroleum explora-tion company) told the students that Kuwait English School was “giving them the foundations to make the most of their life” and that since 1979 it had “guided education of several genera-tions”. Mrs Al Hashem then presented subject prizes to Years 10, 11;1-2 and 13 students.

Mrs Rhoda Elizabeth Muhmood, School Director, then addresses the audience by telling the students that they have “well surpassed my hopes and dreams” and that “each one of you makes a special contribution to Kuwait English School”.

Presentations of special prizes were then made to students who had been recognised as being outstanding in 3 or more subjects. Sabiq Uddin Jawad and Mariam El Ghobary of Year 7, Fathima Yousra Sifar and Sarah Abdel Gawad of Year 9, Marwan Mohamed of Year 10, Lana Husain Khan and Liana Rashid of Year 11 and Jennifer Daruwalla of Year 13 were all recognised for their superb achievements this year. A special men-tion was for Naser Al Jemaz, Year 10, who won the silver prize at a recent sci-entifi c invention competition in Geneva, Switzerland. Naser’s design to make carbon based plastic, was recognised amongst 1000 competitors from 40 dif-ferent countries. A huge congratulations must go to Naser in this accomplish-ment and we wish him all the best for his future.

Photos from the event

A photo from the event

Lulu Hypermarket launches Best of South Africa 2016LuLu Hypermarket, the leading hyper-market chain in the region, launched its ‘Best of South Africa 2016’ promo-tion on April 28, with Ambassador of South Africa to Kuwait H.E. Mzolisa Bona inaugurating the festival at the hypermarket’s Salmiya outlet.

A special attraction at the inau-gural event was a large statue of former South African President and

anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela. The promotion, which is running from April 27 – May 7 at all LuLu Hyper-market outlets in the country, is at-tracting a large crowd of shoppers eager to buy the best of South Afri-can food products.

The promotion features a wide range of well-known South African food brands, such as Nandos Sauce,

Bakers’s Biscuit, Carmien and Willow Creek among others, at very special prices.

The ‘Best of South Africa 2016’ promotion once again confi rms Lulu Hypermarket’s commitment to pre-senting consumers with the best the world has to offer, at affordable prices and in an unique shopping en-vironment.

Photos from the event

The fi nal guest speaker, HE The British Ambassador to Kuwait, Mat-thew Lodge, stated that it was a “great pleasure to be at the Kuwait English School prizegiving” and that students were “deservedly recognised for what

you have achieved”.Throughout the evening the audience

and special guests were enthralled by a range of musical interludes. The school band presented by Tarry, A Capella Choir by Hassan, saxophone ensemble

by Petkov and orchestra by Markovich wowed those present with some en-chanting music. Abdul Aziz Al Mesbah sang ‘This Nearly Was Mine’ by Rogers and Hammerstein, which overwhelmed the audience with it’s beauty and grace.

Lebanese Embassy holds farewell dinner

Burgan Bank ends sponsorshipof 2nd ‘Build your life’ workshop

Ms Hessa Al-Najadah, Senior Offi cer — Public Relations at Burgan Bank (center) with the Kuwaiti Development Union and ‘National Academic Guid-

ance’ volunteer team.

The Lebanese Embassy in Kuwait held an extravagant dinner to bid farewell to departing Ambassador Dr Khodr Helwe, Ambassador of Lebanon to Kuwait.

The event took place at the prestig-ious “Al Jahra” Ballroom at JW Marriott Kuwait and was attended by a huge number of Ambassadors and members of the Diplomatic Corps in Kuwait.

The dinner was kicked off by a short speech by Engineer. Hanna Chalhoub,

in which he thanked, on behalf of all the Lebanese community in Kuwait, His Excellency Ambassador Dr Khodr Helwe for his great role in building great relationships with the entire diplomatic corps in the country, and his hard work to ensure a thriving relation between Lebanon and Kuwait.

Other speeches included the Jordani-an Ambassador to Kuwait H.E. Moham-mad Al Kayed and Manaf Al Hajri, the CEO of the Financial Centre.

KUWAIT CITY, April 30: As part of its comprehensive support of the National Educational Program ‘I Intend to Build Kuwait’, Burgan Bank recently concluded its sponsorship of the second ‘Build your life’ workshop. The workshop was held at Al Hamra Lux-ury Mall over a course of two days, where it targeted students, parents, professors, and educational leaders.

The purpose of the workshop was to raise awareness on the importance of building one’s personality and self in order to achieve targeted goals and future careers and to become more successful in life. The workshop was designed in an informative platform which included a series of live motivational performances and an educa-tional exhibition as well as live workshops to implement the information received into real life situations in the most dynamic way.

Burgan Bank’s eagerness in supporting this program stems from its utmost belief in engaging with students and teachers to create Kuwait’s future generations while shouldering students’ capabilities and

skills with the support of their peers and parents.

The ‘Build your life’ workshop was pre-sented by the Instructor Ali Dashti who ad-dressed 5 main topics namely; Principles of Change, Positive self-build, Keys of True Happiness, Steps to achieving Goals, and How to be Successful in Life. Parents also engaged in workshops to understand how to positively impact their children’s lives and how to allow them to reach the success they’re looking for in their career and society in general.

It is worth mentioning that Burgan Bank’s support to this initiative falls under its recently launched full-fl edged com-munity program entitled ‘ENGAGE’ – Together to be the change. This program sheds light on important aspects affecting every segment of the society by promoting social welfare through educational, cul-tural, social and health initiatives. Burgan Bank’s approach to ‘ENGAGE’ begins with a vital principle that as a Kuwaiti fi -nancial institution, its conduct and policies should be aligned with the needs and inter-ests of the Kuwaiti society.

MNSS announces 2nd draw winners

Zain diamond sponsor of Arab Media Forum

X-cite launches big sale with daily deals

Toyota genuine parts ‘diamond surprises’

Seminars, workshops to be held

‘30 cars in 30 days’

KUWAIT CITY, April 30: Mohamed Naser Al Sayer & Sons Co (MNSS) one of the Al Sayer Group Holding Compa-nies, held an electronic raffl e for Toyota Genuine Spare Parts “Diamond surpris-es” promotion to select the winners of the second draw at the Ministry of Commerce & Industry premises.

Diamond Surprises promotion has build excitement and lot of interest among customers and since commencement has received an overwhelming response so far. 5 lucky winners who were selected from the fi rst raffl e draw were presented marvelous diamond prizes. Names of the winners and the prizes won are as follows:

1 Wasmiah Abdullah Suliman Al-weqaian 0.90 carat (VS) diamond; 2 Ah-mad Kadim 0.83 carat (VS) diamond; 3 Shehzad Abdulaziz Ahmed 0.73 carat

(VS) diamond; 4 Fawaz Doukhi Refaei Al Rasheedi 0.50 carat (VS) diamond; 5

Naser Salah 0.40 carat (VS) diamond.Toyota Genuine Spare Parts reputation

and trust among customers are grounded on their highest standards of quality, du-rability and performance.

They are designed to fi t Toyota vehi-cle’s exact specifi cations. Each part will fi t perfectly and meet the high quality standards of Toyota.

The Spare Parts Winter Promotion commenced the Feb 14, and will end on May 14 2016. Customers will enter one of the three draws with every KD 5 spent on Toyota Genuine Parts at any Al Sayer spare parts outlet or service facility during the promotion period and grab a chance to win the attractive prize.

The remaining draw of this promotion will be conducted during the month of May.

KUWAIT CITY, April 30: Zain, the leading telecommunications company in Kuwait, announced its Diamond spon-sorship of the 13th edition of the Arab Media Forum under the patronage of HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al Hamad Al Sabah. The event takes place from 1-2 May.

The forum, sponsored by Zain for fi ve consecutive years, has proven itself to be one of the region’s most prominent events that attend to Arab Media. The event brings together many ministers, media executives, journalists, academ-ics, authors, actors, businessmen, and

social fi gures from all around the Arab world.

Many seminars, workshops, and dis-cussion panels will be held during the forum, one of which will witness the participation of Zain Kuwait’s Chief Ex-ecutive Offi cer Eaman Al Roudhan, ex Minister of Telecommunications of the State of Qatar Hissah Al Jaber, along with Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Offi cer of the Public Author-ity for Communications and Information Technology Engineer Salem Al Uthaina.

Zain will also participate in the forum through its a dedicated booth, where the

company will welcome visitors to dis-cuss the various ways in which different communications mediums can enhance the development of current media tools in the Arab region.

Zain’s sponsorship and participation in this forum highlights its social com-mitment, as the company believes in the importance of the role press and media plays in the development of communi-ties. Zain will continue supporting this very important sector which carries sig-nifi cant and informative messaging to the public at large and the communica-tions world as a whole.

KUWAIT CITY, April 30: X-cite by Alghanim Electronics, the largest elec-tronics retailer in Kuwait, is proud to announce its big sale, offering amazing savings and unbeatable prices that cus-tomers won’t fi nd anywhere else.

Loyal to its tradition of giving back to its esteemed customers by launching the most gratifyingpromotions such as giv-ing away ì30carsin30daysî or more than ìhalf a million dollars cashî, this time X-citeis offering direct rewards to all cus-tomers with unbeatable offers unseen in Kuwait by offering discounts on a wide range of electronicsand home appliances from the world’s most beloved brands, in addition to daily killer deals with limited time crazy discounts up to 50% off.

The main challenge will bekeeping track of the incredibleoffersavailable throughout X-cite’s 18 showrooms and online store.

Customers who don’t want to miss those deals should follow their website xcite.com andsocial media channels where the daily deals will be announced; @xcitealghanim on Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat and Facebook: XcitebyAl-ghanim.

This exceptional campaign will run from May 1st until June 7th, 2016, so customers are highly encouraged touse this window of opportunity by fulfi lling their electronic needs while benefi ting fromoutstanding savings and exclusive deals.

A photo from the event

School celebrates achievements of students

KES organises prize-giving ceremony