Bahraini Undersecretary of Ministry of Labor Sabah Al-Dosari said that Gulf Air Company is working on proposing optional retirement to its employees, stressing that it will not oblige them to retire.

Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs & Urban Planning proposed two days ago a tender to construct a new tire recycling factory as part of the state's approach to adopting environmental solutions.

Head of Traffic Accidents and Violations Unit said that the General Directorate of Traffic has formed a technical committee in cooperation with the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning to enhance traffic safety on Riya road in Muharraq.

Assistant Undersecretary for Technical Services in Ministry of Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ibrahim Al-Hawaj said that the ministry proposed 94 internal tenders in the first quarter of 2018 to 11 departments with total cost of 826.401 BD.

Building Maintenance Director at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Huda Mirza revealed that they completed the planning and designs required for the maintenance of 25 government schools in various Governorates, costing BD1,800,000.

Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning signed deal for a new headquarters for agricultural affairs, funded by Kuwait Fund for Economic Development. The project will cost 2 million BD.

The Ministry of Works said that maintenance works on Buri Tunnel would necessitate full closure for the Tunnel and the traffic movement will be diverted to surrounding roads.

Assistant Under-Secretary for agriculture affairs in the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Dr. Ibrahim Yusuf denied the presence of highly contagious strain of bird flu “H5N8” in Bahrain, stressing that the directorate took all precautions and measures, adding that there is a special operation room to follow up the incident.

The Bahraini Minister of Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning Issam Khalaf said municipal revenues will rise to 90 million dinars in 2017, after it reached 60 million in 2016, a surge of 30 million dinars in one year.

Labour Affairs Undersecretary in Labour and Social Development Ministry Sabah Al-Dossary said that 30 inspectors were assigned to follow up the implementation of afternoon work ban decision, indicating that the inspectors monitored violation in 80 establishments on 155 labors. Al-Dossary added that these establishments are to be referred to the prosecution.

Under-secretary for Municipal Affairs at the Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Ministry Nabeel Abu Al Fateh said that the building permits to investment projects that were issued since the onset of the year until August 9 reached 592 in a building space that exceeds 4 million meter square and over billion BD cost.

Bahraini Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa issued edict 11/2017 appointing Mariam Ameen as the Director of Construction Projects at the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning.

Bahrain’s Minister of Works, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning Issam Khalaf approved the recommendations of Southern Municipal Council, over imposing fees for entering the Khalifa Grand Park and using the central East Riffa Market Parking Lot.

6 months passed on the employees of the Northern governorate municipality, without them taking their salaries from the Ministry of Works, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning.

Trainees in the Municipal Affairs, known as the “1912 list”, will know their career future after 10 days, on whether they will remain in their current jobs or their file will be referred to the department of employment in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development as unemployed

A Bahraini court adjourned the appeal against the decision to dissolve the Tawiya Society until October 18, waiting for the replies of the Ministry of Works and Municipal Affairs.

Bahrain Mirror (Exclusive): Witnesses stated on Thursday (January 28, 2016) that the Bahraini security authorities removed barriers near the Pearl Roundabout, which was the center of the February and March protests, to the north and replaced them with police vehicles.

Bahrain Mirror: Chairman of the Southern Governorate Municipal Council, Ahmed Al-Ansari, said that Bahrain’s municipalities have become “a scapegoat” during the merging process carried out by the government as part of its austerity policies.

Bahrain Mirror: The head of the North Area Municipality, Mohammad Bou Hammoud, said that the “there is still no progress regarding the issue of temporary employees in the municipality’s secretariat and no final solution has been made.”