No booths and kiosks allowed inside co-op societies

Kuwait Municipality has refused to grant official licenses to booths and kiosks within the premises of cooperative societies.

This comes after the news that the Ministry of Social Affairs and Community Development’s attempts to provide the necessary licenses from the relevant authorities to facilitate the owners of small and medium enterprises, and to achieve the country’s vision to support this category of young people, reports Al- Qabas daily.

Even though there are a number of kiosks or booths in cooperative societies, most of these activities, especially those located on the ground floor of the supermarkets, do not carry the required licenses from state authorities, especially those issued by the Kuwait Municipality, due to which they are in continuous violation of the prevailing regulations.

In this context, the Director of the Cooperative Development Sector at the Ministry of Social Affairs Hiyam Al-Khudair said, “The booths in cooperative societies are not approved by the Kuwait Municipality. Therefore it is not possible to grant and facilitate access sites and activities that are not approved by the concerned authorities in the country. Kuwait Municipality is the reason why booths are not allowed on the ground floor, as it is the authority concerned with determining the activities authorized to be established in cooperative societies.”

She explained that the Ministry of Social Affairs received several letters from the municipality, affirming the prohibition on the establishment of booths and kiosks in general in cooperative societies