Top medical complex to be built in Bahrain Manama, 1 hours, 57 minutes ago A state-of-the-art medical complex will be built in Muharraq as part of plans to promote health services in Bahrain. HRH Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa was yesterday updated on initial engineering designs, our sister newspaper, the Gulf Daily News reported. He directed the ministries of health and works to draw up technical blueprints in addition to an executive Read more [...]

Bahrain records 45,000 visa violations Manama, 1 hours, 42 minutes ago A total of 45,000 visa violations were recorded in Bahrain over the past four years, our sister newspaper, the Gulf Daily News reported. The number of runaway maid cases reached 5,593, with 1,254 in 2009, 1,378 in 2010 and 1,431 in 2011 and 1,530 last year. The number of deported male expatriates reached 8,519, with 2,335 in 2009, 2,902 in 2010, 1,838 in 2011 and 1,444 from January Read more [...]

The United States and the European Union on Monday welcomed Bahrain's newly launched national dialogue involving the country's key political players, and expressed hopes that the initiative would succeed in resolving the ongoing political crisis in the Gulf kingdom.US State Department spokesperson Victoria Nuland told a press briefing on Monday that the United States welcomes the start of the national dialogue in Bahrain, and stated that Washington was "encouraged by the broad participation of Bahraini Read more [...]

Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain 10 February 2013: Bahrain’s national carrier Gulf Air has been ranked among the top ten global airlines for achieving the highest on-time performance of its flights for the month of January 2013. The airline is also among the finalists for the 2012 FlightStats On-time Performance Service Awards for the Middle East region.   Releasing the list of global airlines’ on time flight punctuality for the month of January 2013, Flightstats, the leader in global flight and airport Read more [...]

JEDDAH – Salaries in the oil and gas sector soared across the Middle East last year, with Saudia Arabia, Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates recording some of the largest increases globally, the Oil and Gas Global Salary Guide 2013, published by UK-based Hays recruitment company, revealed. Kuwait topped the pay scale among Read more [...]

He also added that all opposition groups are united to develop a democratic system in the Persian Gulf state. In the background of this Bahraini opposition parties have called for mass protests every day in the run up to the date of the second anniversary of the peoples’ rebellion in Bahrain against a despotic monarch. Four of the daily rallies have already taken place attracted large crowds with regime forces present. The Bahraini authorities have offered dialogue in the lead up to this anniversary, Read more [...]