Bahrain is entering its eighth year under the "Emergency Law", said Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society.

Vice President of the Bahrain’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI), Khalid Najaibi, told local Al-Bilad newspaper that there are new controls that will be most likely announced within two months, concerning commercial records and licenses for foreign companies, in addition to the limiting of consequences of Flexible Work permits, and what is known as the "free visa", as well as setting controls on external cash transfers of foreigners.

The National Islamic Al-Wefaq Society condemned the brutal terrorist acts committed in New Zealand on Friday in two mosques during Friday prayers.

A fire broke out last night in the USS Devastator minesweeper while it was docked at the US naval base in Bahrain.

Activists held a photo exhibition in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, coinciding with the eighth anniversary of the entry of Saudi and Emirati troops (within the framework of the Peninsula Shield forces) to Bahrain to crush pro-democracy protests.

The head of emergency and accident department at the Salmaniya Medical Complex, Raed Al-Marzouq, denied the existence of a crisis, after dozens of medical staff joined the voluntary retirement program.

The minor criminal court decided to renew the detention of an employee in the ministry of justice and his sister (a lawyer) for 15 days pending investigations over case of receiving sums of money for the release of a convicted person in a fraud case.

Governor of Central Bank of Bahrain, Rasheed Al-Maraj, said that Bahraini females constitute 45% of the total employees in the bank.

A Bahraini court sentenced 167 people arrested in 2017 at a sit-in outside the home of Bahrain's leading Shi'ite Muslim cleric to between six months and 10 years in prison at a trial in late February, court documents and lawyers said.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Khawla Matar of Bahrain as the Deputy Special Envoy for Syria.

Director General of Organization and Position Budget at the Civil Service Bureau Jamal Abdulaziz Al-Alawi said that manpower planning and budget directorate concluded in 2018 studying about 8016 requests related to bonuses and allowances.

A prominent opposition politician in Bahrain faces up to six months in prison for a tweet about Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.

Minister of Transportation and Telecommunications Kamal Ahmed said that Bahrain decided to bar Boeing 737 MAX from using Bahrain International Airport or flying in the Kingdom's airspace.

A Bahrain court sentenced opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif to six months in jail and 500 BD fine to stop the execution of sentence after a Bahraini court convicted him of "insulting president of a foreign country".

Bahrain on Wednesday sentenced a liberal opposition figure to six months in jail for tweeting criticsm of Sudan's president who has been facing protests against his rule, rights groups said.

The Parliament approved on Tuesday (March 12, 2019) an urgent proposal to scrap a flexible work permit scheme for foreigner workers.

The Bahraini Football Association (BFA) issued a statement supporting the decision of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) to cancel the Qatari "beIN sport" channels' monopoly on Asian continent matches and competitions in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

A refugee footballer who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months during a tense extradition stand-off between Australia and the Gulf state was granted Australian citizenship on Tuesday.

The Australian authorities granted, on Monday (March 11, 2019), citizenship to the Bahraini refugee football player Hakeem Al-Araibi.

The Public Prosecution referred a sales manager in a shop to an urgent trial over charge of applying the Value Added Tax (VAT) to the goods of the shop and customers without registering his entity in the official VAT system and set Thursday as a day to commence his trial.