The reform package includes higher electricity and water tariffs, with an exception for citizens’ first homes, which will continue to receive subsidized rates up to a specified limit.

Bahrain also plans to raise natural gas prices for businesses and cut administrative government expenditure by 20% ...

Bahrain's government and parliament, the Council of Representatives, held several meetings to discuss measures to support the ...

Bahrain announces phased increases in natural gas prices from January 2026 and introduces a monthly fuel pricing mechanism to ...

Bahrain has initiated significant fiscal reforms, including hikes in fuel, electricity, and water prices, and increased ...

These measures include increases in fuel prices, higher electricity and water tariffs for certain categories, and greater dividend contributions from state-owned enterprises ...

The Gulf’s most-indebted nation needs to “accelerate the program of fiscal reforms” while keeping fiscal policy “tight,” said ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The websites of two government ministries in Bahrain briefly became inaccessible Tuesday night after a cyberattack took them down, purportedly over the island ...

Fuel and utilities prices to be raised; increased dividends from state-owned companies; proposed 10% tax on profit above ...

FILE - Bahrain's Crown Prince and Prime Minister Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa pays his respects to the coffin of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, following her death, during her lying-in-state at Westminster ...