The appetite for affordable freehold property remains extremely strong in Bahrain with as many as 47,000 Bahrainis currently on the waiting list for a government home, a report said. The developer who is able to provide a product that meets the needs of this market in terms of price and design is likely to deliver [...]
AN art workshop for people with special needs can now go ahead, thanks to the support of donors. The Rotary Club of Adliya has donated BD20,000 to the Social Development Ministry which will establish the specialised art workshop. It is one of four planned for across the country. The aim of the initiative is to [...]
Bahrain is turning pink as companies, schools and individuals join a nationwide initiative to raise money and awareness in aid of breast cancer. A charity gala dinner, lectures and fitness activities are some of the events being planned to mark World Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which falls every year in October. The Think Pink Bahrain [...]
Sixteen Bahraini orphans will receive top of the line education in leading private schools starting next academic year, Bahrain-based Ithmaar Bank announced yesterday. The students will be selected after a rigorous screening programme, said bank chairman Khalid Abdulla Janahi. He said that the first initiative, carried out with the Royal Charity Organisation, would entail the [...]
Bahrain will impose a ban on alcohol, discos and live entertainment in residential areas of the Muslim kingdom next year, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Bahrain is one of the more liberal states in the conservative Gulf region, but Islamists have been promoting their views since winning a foothold in parliament in 2002. “Hotels and [...]
Shiites in Bahrain demonstrated Friday against what they said was a government effort to grant citizenship to Sunnis from other Arab countries. Just months before Bahrain is to hold parliamentary and municipal elections, a former government adviser has set off a political firestorm with a report describing what he says is a vast conspiracy to [...]
A dream holiday, where a meeting with famous cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck is guaranteed, is set to become a special birthday present for a seriously ill Bahraini girl. An excited Ruqaya Mohammed couldn’t hide her glee when British Airways officials at A’ali Shopping Complex informed her yesterday that she has been selected [...]
The Indian Embassy has blacklisted a Bahrain company accused of not giving written contracts to any of its employees. It has forbidden Indians from working for the company, while the allegations are investigated by embassy and Labour Ministry officials. Indian ambassador Balkrishna Shetty said yesterday that the action had been taken after evidence was presented [...]
A Bahraini family forced to sleep rough because they were scared their dilapidated house would collapse at any moment were given the keys to a villa in Hamad Town last night. A VIP stepped in after reading about their plight in the GDN and bought them the luxury, three-bedroom property – promising to cover the [...]
UNITED NATIONS: Bahrain’s first female diplomat, Shaikha Haya bint Rashid Al Khalifa, will be formally elected tomorrow as the next president of the UN General Assembly, UN officials said. Shaikha Haya, a champion of women’s rights in Islamic courts and one of the first two Bahraini women to practice law in the country, beginning in [...]
