Jobs for youth

Manama : With a view to providing private sector jobs for Bahraini youths, the Cabinet yesterday decided to launch a project. 

The weekly Cabinet session, chaired by Prime Minister HRH Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, decided to launch a project to provide private sector jobs for 15,000 Bahraini university graduates and diploma holders and General Certificates of Secondary Education.

The scheme is a continuation of the project launched by the government in 2014, which led to the employment of 10,000 Bahrainis.

The project, highlighted in the memorandum presented by the Labour and Social Development Minister Jameel Humaidan, provides wide-ranging incentives to motivate the private sector to attract the national workforce in various specialities.

Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister HRH Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa also attended the session. 

The Cabinet also approved a plan to extend the terms of reference of the National Committee for the Unified Purchase of Drugs from four to 12. The plan was introduced by Deputy Premier Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, who is also the Chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Legal Affairs.

Accordingly, the Committee for the Unified Purchase of Drugs will be in charge of preparing a list of basic medicines, unifying their purchase to reduce expenditures, creating an e-system to monitor the disbursement of drugs and studying the possibility of introducing e-prescription services.

The Cabinet also endorsed a draft edict to amend some provisions of Edict 32/2011 for establishing the Committee for the Unified Purchase of Drugs.

Meanwhile, HRH Premier welcomed private sector initiatives and contributions that boost the exhibition industry in the Kingdom and promote the quality of national and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) products.

Prince Khalifa also  highlighted the importance of the Bahrain International Airport expansion project, for which he recently laid the foundation stone in the presence of HRH the Crown Prince. The airport expansion will increase the Kingdom’s capabilities in civil aviation and logistics services.