Why does the government avoid choosing the right and real solution to the problem of unemployment in the country, especially the specific unemployment among graduates?

Board Chairman of the Labour Fund (Tamkeen) Mohammed bin Isa Al Khalifa said that Tamkeen's support for non-Bahraini companies reaches 6% of the total support it provides for companies, adding that the companies where non-Bahrainis own shares partly or entirely do not exceed 7% of companies in Bahrain.

A delegation from the Israeli Foreign Ministry visited the Bahraini capital, Manama, this week to participate in a global entrepreneurship congress.

The Minister of Labor and Social Development Jameel Humaidan said that the number of unemployed registered to date in the National Program for Employment reached 2,200 applicants, pointing out that the increase in the number of enrollments in the program does not exceed 30% of the total applicants so far.

Bahrainis are mocking the powerless Labor Minister, Jameel Humaidan, and challenging him to disclose the real number of unemployed people in Bahrain, asking him if it is 25,000 or 8,000.

There isn’t a big margin for craftiness regarding the invitation given out to Israeli Economy Minister Eli Cohen to participate in the entrepreneurship congress hosted by Bahrain mid this month. The government denied, confirming the matter.

Kuwait's Minister of Commerce and Industry, Khalid Al-Roudhan, has decided not to participate in the Entrepreneurship Congress to be held in Bahrain from 15 to 18 of April, due to the presence of Israeli speakers at the conference.

Bahraini journalists and activists have confirmed the participation of speakers from the Israeli entity at the 2019 Global Entrepreneurship Congress, which Bahrain will host next April 15-18, 2019.

Tamkeen Fund is going to extend the suspension of the Wage Support Program, which is geared to encourage hiring unemployed Bahrainis, an additional month, despite promises to reinstate the program early next month (March 2019), after deciding to suspend it for a month and a half, on the grounds of reviewing it.

The National Audit Office report on labor fund “Tamkeen” showed the absence of a new minister tasked with monitoring the “Fund's” work after the former Media Minister, who was previously concerned with the "Fund" according to decree number 32 for 2015. This led to the absence of the monitoring role tasked to the minister concerned with the "Fund."

Tamkeen has launched its Internship Scheme to provide interns with opportunity to gain practical experience through a training period with an institution in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

The Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning dismissed 60 female Bahraini employees under the pretext of their contracts’ termination.

Bahrain Mirror: The King of Bahrain Hamad Bin Issa Al Khalifa issued four new decrees appointing the University President Ibrahim Mohammed Ahmed Janahi as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Labour Fund (Tamkeen) for a three-year term.