The First High Criminal Court started the trial of an employee in the Ministry of Works over demanding 2,000 BD bribe in order to pass lamps shipment that do not conform to the ministry's specifications.

Minister of Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning Essam Khalaf rejected a municipal proposal to abolish building permit fees and insurance payments imposed by the ministry on housing units for government housing projects.

National Audit Office report for 2019 stated the Ministry of Works and Municipalities continued to use some of its revenues for its recurrent expenses, without transferring them to the state public account.

Minister of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning, Isa Khalaf, said that the number of construction permit requests received by the ministry during the past 5 years reached 69952 requests.

The Minister of Work, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning, Isam bin Abdullah Khalaf, toured the Alba and Nuwaidrat crossroads development project, which is development with the support of the Kuwait Fund

Bahrain Mirror: The local Bahraini Al-Wasat newspaper said in its latest issue that the heavy rain that fell in Bahrain on Tuesday (November 24, 2015) revealed the harsh reality of the infrastructure in a number of areas in the Muharraq Governorate.