Day: May 19, 2021

The Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO) delivered a humanitarian aid convoy to Palestine on Wednesday, consisting of three trucks carrying medical and relief supplies provided by Morocco, as part of its national relief campaign to Palestine.

In a press statement, JHCO’s Secretary General, Hussein Shibli, said the organization continues to prepare and send humanitarian aid convoys as part of its aid drive, in coordination with the Jordanian Armed Forces – the Arab Army (JAF), to meet the humanitarian needs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Speaking at remarks made to see off the convoy, the Moroccan ambassador to Jordan, Sidi Muhammad Naciri, said: The aid comes according to directives of King Mohammed VI to send relief assistance to the Palestinian people.

In coordination with JHCO, the envoy said the two Moroccan aid planes landed in Jordan last Sunday, adding that the convoy was funneled in support of the Palestinian people.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Lower House rejected the draft law amending the 2021 Money Exchange Business Law, during its session held on Wednesday, headed by its Speaker Abdel Moneim Awdat and attended by the Cabinet members.

In their debate, the lawmakers referred to MP Abdul Karim al-Daghmi, who said the new money exchange legislature “jeopardizes investment, and stiffens penalties on investors.”

In his response to the lawmakers’ interventions, Mahmoud Kharabsheh, Minister of State for Legal Affairs, said the bill “does not aim to discourage investment, but rather works to stimulate Jordan’s investment environment. The draft law is for regulatory purposes only.”

The minister said the amended bill bans issuing remittances by unlicensed exchange offices, adding that the government supports investment promotion in Jordan, but failed to convince the lawmakers of the government’s perspective.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Official data of the Civil Aviation Regulatory commission (CARC) showed a sharp decrease in the passenger movement through Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) by 93% since March 17 to the end of 2020, after anti-Covid-19 restrictions issued by the government on air navigation domestically came into effect to prevent the virus outbreak.

Over the March-December period 2020, some 532,000 passengers arrived and departed through QAIA, while the airport received a total of 9426,000 in-bound and outbound flights in the same period, compared to about 7,327 million passengers and 64,977,000 flights for the 2019 comparison period, the CARC data revealed.

As for air cargo, the QAIA handled 49,701 tons last year, compared with 105,402, tons in 2019, a drop of about 53%.

Meanwhile since beginning of January to March 16, 2020, the CARC said the airport saw a slight decrease in passenger traffic by 5%, as QAIA received about 1.518 million passengers, against some 1.597 million for the 2019 comparison period, announcing the airport also received 14,792 flights, compared to 14,764.

Source: Jordan News Agency