Head of the Municipality of Southern Governorate said the cleaning services department removed in 2017 approximately 175,887 tons of household, construction, commercial and industrial waste.

The Bahraini Minister of Works, Municipalities and Urban Planning Issam Khalaf said municipal revenues will rise to 90 million dinars in 2017, after it reached 60 million in 2016, a surge of 30 million dinars in one year.

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.

Bahrain�s Minister of Works, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning Issam Khalaf approved the recommendations of Southern Municipal Council, over imposing fees for entering the Khalifa Grand Park and using the central East Riffa Market Parking Lot.

The Northern region Municipality said it had reduced the number of garbage containers in the town of Buri temporarily.

Trainees in the Municipal Affairs, known as the �1912 list�, will know their career future after 10 days, on whether they will remain in their current jobs or their file will be referred to the department of employment in the Ministry of Labor and Social Development as unemployed

Bahrain Mirror: Chairman of the Southern Governorate Municipal Council, Ahmed Al-Ansari, said that Bahrain�s municipalities have become �a scapegoat� during the merging process carried out by the government as part of its austerity policies.