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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1990

ALL POSTAL SERVICES TO KUWAIT, IRAQ SUSPENDED

TODAY

THE ACTING POSTMASTER GENERAL, MISS ELLE SHUM, ANNOUNCED THAT DUE TO THE LATEST SITUATIONS IN THE GULF AREA, THE POST OFFICE IS UNABLE TO FORWARD MAILS TO KUWAIT AND IRAQ.

AND IRAQ ARE AS A RESULT, ALL POSTAL SERVICES TO KUWAIT SUSPENDED WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT. FURTHER ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE MADE SOON AS SERVICES COULD BE RESUMED.

NOW AS

$42.4 MILLION PAID TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS

PAID OUT ABOUT $42.4

MILLION (TAVA) FUND TO TRAFFIC

THE SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT FROM THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS ASSISTANE ACCIDENT VICTIMS OR THEIR DEPENDENTS IN 1988-89.

THE ACCORDING TO THE 1988-89 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE TAVA FUND BY

FOR ASSISTANCE WERE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL WELFARE, 6,289 APPLICATIONS

PER CENT AS RECEIVED IN THAT PERIOD, REPRESENTING A DECREASE OF 2.7 COMPARED TO 6,466 APPLICATIONS IN 1987-88.

CASES 466

DURING THE YEAR, 5,629 OR 91.5 PER CENT OF THE 6,154 NEW PROCESSED HAD PAYMENTS AUTHORISED. OF THE REMAINING APPLICATIONS, OR 7.6 PER CENT WERE WITHDRAWN WHILE 59 OR 0.9 PER CENT WERE REJECTED.

DEPARTMENT HANDLED 46 CASUALTIES WERE

THE TAVA SECTION OF THE SOCIAL WELFARE SERIOUS TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN THE YEAR IN WHICH HEAVY INVOLVED.

THE LARGEST NUMBER THE ACCIDENT RESULTING IN

OF CASUALTIES ROCK TUNNEL ROAD, WHICH OCCURRED ON NOVEMBER 20, 1988 AT THE LION INVOLVED A TOURIST BUS.

DURING THE MISHAP, THREE ELDERLY

PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND 45 ELIGIBLE FOR 35 WERE INJURED. OF THESE

WERE FOUND ASSISTANCE AND A TOTAL AMOUNT OF $385,618 WAS AUTHORISED FOR PAYMENT.

CASULATIES,

THE HIGHEST SINGLE PAYMENT OF $59,800 IN THE YEAR WAS THE FIVE SURVIVING DEPENDENT FAMILY MEMBERS OF A TAXI DRIVER KILLED IN A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT.

PAID то WHO WAS

IS ONE OF THE DEPARTMENT

THE TAVA SCHEME, IN OPERATION SINCE MAY 1979, SOCIAL SECURITY SCHEMES ADMINISTERED BY THE SOCIAL WELFARE WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF PROVIDING

FINANCIAL SPEEDY

ASSISTANCE TO

MEMBERS

THE

TRAFFIC ACCIDENT VICTIMS, OR THEIR SURVIVING DEPENDENT FAMILY IN THE CASE OF DEATH, REGARDLESS OF THE MEANS OF THE FAMILY OR TO ELEMENT OF FAULT IN CAUSING THE ACCIDENT.

/TO BE