Cabinet Clears Proposal to Fund New Gas Plant
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GREAT RATES ON MONEY TRANSFER AND CURRENCY EXCHANGE GUARANTEED! Tel: 1722 8888 www.bfc.com.bh Tuesday, March 7, 2017 Issue No. 7313 200 Fils www.newsofbahrain.com www.facebook.com/nobonline newsofbahrain 38444680 nob_bh JO3082_BFC_Flag_Globe_DT_Hamper_6.7cmX8.5cm_Hand.inddDT News Network Qatari 1Emir, Shaikh Tamim2/1/17 2:59 PM Manama bin Hamad Al-Thani as WITH he Cabinet yesterday well as with senior state THIS PAPER lauded the Kingdom’s officials. The session also effortsT to enhance hailed the results of HRH cooperation with the Gulf Crown Prince’s visit to Cooperation Council (GCC) Kuwait and his talks with countries at bilateral and the Kuwaiti Emir, Shaikh multilateral levels, noting Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al that the efforts in this regard Sabah as well as the visit to have been successful and Qatar and his talks with Emir Exclusive HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa and HRH Prime Minister Prince fruitful. The Cabinet meeting Shaikh Tamim. TO DT SUBSCRIBERS Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa during the Cabinet meeting held yesterday was chaired by His Royal While informing the Highness Prime Minister session about his fruitful talks Prince Khalifa bin Salman with the Qatari leadership, Al Khalifa in the presence HRH Prime Minister of His Royal Highness expressed pride in the Prince Salman bin Hamad gracious welcome accorded Al Khalifa, the Crown to him in Qatar which, he 80% of the world’s Prince, Deputy Supreme said, reflects the specific energy comes from Commander and First nature of the distinguished Deputy Premier. Bahraini-Qatari relations. fossil fuels. We need Reviewing the visits of HRH Crown Prince clean-energy innova- HRH the Prime Minister and informed the Cabinet about Efforts to HRH the Crown Prince to the positive outcomes of his tion, and lots of it the State of Qatar and Kuwait talks with the leaderships of @BillGates recently, the Cabinet said Kuwait and Qatar, noting that Bahrain’s policies towards it boosted the cooperation the GCC have been clearly with the two countries. Today’s Weather manifested in these visits. The session underscored Max Min The Cabinet lauded the the importance of such visits fruitful outcome of HRH in enhancing the ability to 23°C 15°C boost ties Premier’s official visit to face the economic, political Qatar at the invitation of and security challenges Father Emir, Shaikh Hamad created by the regional and x bin Khalifa Al-Thani, and global developments. praised his talks with the (Continued on Page 3) Former Guantanamo inmate killed in Yemen Washington Cabinet clears proposal former Guantanamo Bay inmate was killed to fund new gas plant A he Cabinet yesterday endorsed a proposal of the in a US air strike in Yemen with GCC National Oil and Gas Authority (NOGA) on funding last week, the Defense aT new facility for processing gas. The proposal follows a Department said yesterday, recommendation by the Supreme Committee for Natural as part of a stepped-up Resources and Economic Security, chaired by HRH the campaign against Al-Qaeda. Crown Prince, regarding the plant. “We can confirm The new facility, a subsidiary of the Bahrain National the death of a former Gas Company (Banagas), will extract liquefied gas from Guantanamo Bay detainee, gas, and re-inject excess gas into the field in order to Yasir al-Silmi,” Pentagon increase the overall capacity of Banagas, a memorandum spokesman Navy Captain presented by the Oil Minister explained. Jeff Davis said. hailed 2 Tuesday, March 7, 2017 The Bahrain Economic Development Board (EDB) yesterday organised a sand Four gets sculpture workshop by award- winning international artist, Sudarsan Pattnaik as part of Spring of Culture festival. prison for The workshop will be running for five days, for Ministry of Education employees. planting Pattnaik has won 24 global awards in the field of sand sculpting and represented his home country, India in over 50 fake bomb global art festivals. The Gold Sponsors of this year’s festival are the National Bank of Bahrain, Huawei and GFH Financial DT News Network in the act. Group, while Silver Sponsors Manama The first defendant told include Bahrain Airport he High Criminal Court prosecutors that he had Company, Aluminium Bahrain has sentenced four people participated in the riot after (ALBA), Bank of Bahrain and toT five years behind bars for receiving a text message from Kuwait, DHL and Bahrain Duty rioting and planting a hoax the third accused. The sands of life The sands Free. Additional support has bomb. “We met near a mosque, been provided by the Bahrain The defendants are believed and then we headed to Institute of Banking and Finance to have rioted in the village of another area where the tyres (BIBF), Investate, the National A’ali, where they put the fake were stored. We prepared the Oil and Gas Authority and device before they fled. fake bomb there also,” the Bahrain Maritime & Mercantile They were reported to have first defendant said during International (BMMI) and the also burnt tyres during the questioning. embassies of Italy, Japan, USA process. The defendants were Bomb experts were called and Mexico. arrested after investigations to examine the device, and established their involvement they declared it as fake. Tuesday, March 7, 2017 3 Expat dies US student of heart jailed attack for drug Lawsuit to DT News Network Manama peddling n Indian expatriate from Saudi Arabia died dissolve Afollowing a heart attack during transit at the Bahrain International Airport on Friday. The deceased is DT News Network cigarettes from him. The duo Grurusamy Mookkan, 49, as Manama then met in the defendant’s Waad filed per a notification from the he High Criminal Court apartment in Busaiteen, where DT News Network Society glorified convicted development in Bahrain Ministry of Health. He was has sentenced an American anti-drug squads pounced on Manama terrorists and saboteurs who regardless of their position travelling on Gulf Air from studentT in a private university the accused upon completion he Ministry of Justice, used weapons and detonated or inclination and in Riyadh on his way to India here to 10 years in prison for of the receiving process. It was Islamic Affairs and bombs in killing and spite of such exclusionist after renewing his Saudi visa. peddling drugs and consuming reported that the defendant was EndowmentsT yesterday wounding several security, extremist groups throughout The passenger collapsed while hashish. The youth has been smoking a hashish cigarette at said that it filed a lawsuit threatened citizens and history.” transiting through Bahrain ordered to be deported after the time of his arrest. to dissolve the National residents’ safety and damaged The left-leaning former Airport. “The passenger was completion of his prison term. According to court files, Democratic Action Society private and public properties. head of Waad, Ibrahim taken to a hospital in Bahrain The youth was arrested in a police officers seized a digital (Waad), a secular opposition The Society continuously Sharif, was freed in July after but was pronounced dead by sting operation after a police scale and other types of party in the Kingdom. violated the principles of the he served a one-year jail medical authorities,” Gulf tip-off revealed that he was drugs from the respondent’s “The Society committed democratic political process, term. Air stated. Gurusamy is from selling illicit drugs . The trap apartment. He admitted to the gross violations in breach basic freedoms and people’s He had already served four Kokkadi village in Tamil was laid by an officer in plain charges levelled against him of the Kingdom’s laws, participation in the process,” years of a five-year sentence Nadu. He is survived by wife clothes who contacted the before the prosecutors, court Constitution and National the ministry added. before being released under and two children. student, requesting hashish files read. Action Charter, including The ministry affirmed an amnesty in June last year. incitement of acts of terrorism that “to maintain Bahrain’s On Sunday the Shura and promoting violent and security and sustainability Council approved a forceful overthrow of the of growth in all fields is the constitutional amendment Shaikh Isa remembered political regime,” the ministry main objective for all patriots enabling military courts to said in a statement, seeking who are sincerely involved try civilians accused of terror from Page 1 dissolution of the party. “The in serving community and crimes. RH the Prime Minister recalled with Cabinet decisions appreciationH and gratitude the virtues, achievements The Cabinet reviewed a memorandum presented by and qualities of the late the Minister of Education on making amendments to Emir Shaikh Isa bin Salman Decree-Law 25/1998 with respect to Private Educational and Al Khalifa, May Allah the Training Institutions. Aiming to encourage investment in Almighty rest his soul in the private educational and training institutions within a set eternal peace. of requirements that ensure the quality of their output, the The Prime Minister affirmed proposed amendments were referred to the Supreme Council that the great contributions of for the Development of Education and Training and the the late Shaikh Isa, whose death Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs. anniversary is commemorated today, to the Kingdom’s The Cabinet was also informed about the ability of the progress, and his services to his government to meet the needs of the urban projects, and people and nation will remain was notified about the procedures to run and operate the engraved in the national facility by the Ministry of Works, Municipalities Affairs and memory. Urban Planning, along with the company which was awarded In this regard, HRH Premier the tender. gave directives to document the achievements and giving The session took note of the implementation procedures of Bahraini men and women of the memorandum of understanding on mutual and their dedicated efforts in exemption from visa fees for the holders of normal passports the service of their country and signed between Bahrain and Turkey on the sidelines of the people.