Promotion for cheaper hotel rooms
Suad Hamada (Bahrain Beat) / 27 July 2014
Bahrain citizens and residents will enjoy cheaper hotel room rates as part of government’s efforts to boost the tourism sector.
Thirty-four luxury hotels have agreed to slash room prices by 20 per cent round the year, starting August, Assistant Undersecretary for Tourism Shaikh Khalid bin Humood Al Khalifa has announced.
The ministry of culture has signed a cooperation deal with 11 five-star hotels and 18 four-star hotels as part of the promotional programme.
“The initiative aims at revitalising internal tourism and attracting Bahraini and resident families to tourism facilities”, he said. The promotional price reduction which will be effective all week days, does not cover special events such as the Gulf Air F1 Grand Prix, national days and eids.
Housing Minister Engineer Bassim Yaqoub Al Hamer has said that the ministry has embarked on activating the pilot phase of its “scale rating” system, which allocates temporary apartments for applicants on the ministry’s housing waiting list.
The minister said that the trial period targets applicants under pressing economic and social conditions, considering the possibility of circulating the service among the rest of the applications when the system is formally activated. Al Hamer said that “scale rating” system measures the total income of the individual applicant and his/her family, monitors the socio-economic conditions of his/her family members, as well as the criteria of priority and age group,
The ministry allots a specific number of points for each criterion and the applicant who has the highest number of points gets priority, taking into consideration that the points reflect an application’s urgency.
System for environmental monitoring launched
The Supreme Council for the Environment (SCE) in collaboration with Central Informatics Organisation, has launched the Geographical Information System for environmental monitoring.
The system aims to achieve vital objectives, such as integrating the environmental, natural and marine resources database and harnessing space technology to improve administrative processesing.
New girls’ school adopts green technology
Education Minister Dr Majid bin Ali Al Nuaimi has said that the ministry has been gearing up to build new school buildings to meet the increasing demand all over the kingdom.
The ministery is always open to adopting news ideas in this regard. It has started in cooperation with the Ministry of Work the construction of a primary girls’ school in Wadi Al Sael adopting the green buildings’ technology in the southern governorate. The school will be built on a space of 28,673 square metres costing BD3,759,499.
Ministry of Works (MoW)’s Assistant Undersecretary for Projects Construction and Maintenance said that 60 per cent of the foundation work has already been completed.
measures the total income of the individual applicant and his/her family, monitors the socio-economic conditions of his/her family members, as well as the criteria of priority and age group,
The ministry allots a specific number of points for each criterion and the applicant who has the highest number of points gets priority, taking into consideration that the points reflect an application’s urgency.
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