MPs also approved three urgent proposals during their extraordinary session yesterday and referred them to the Cabinet.
Allowing fishermen to have their family members, who are not registered or licensed as professional fishermen, to accompany them on a boat, ship or vessel.
Halting the sacking procedures involving two Bahrainis at Alba until a further investigation is conducted.
Moving Bahraini families to ready government homes before evacuating them from their old crumbled apartment buildings and bulldozing them. Currently, families moved from dilapidated government housing are given BD100 each month to rent temporary apartments until their new homes are ready.
Parliament also approved 40 parliamentary proposals following review and recommendation by committees concerned and also referred them to the Cabinet for study.
They include:
- Setting up a special unit to combat Internet privacy invasion and child exploitation, as well as video game violence
- Setting up a bailout fund to help bank loan defaulters, who have been sentenced to jail
- Forming a fishermen’s and farmers’ support fund
- Forming a national committee for creativity
- Allocating a plot to establish a women-only club in Riffa
- Obliging all government bodies and businesses to allocate spaces and facilities for the disabled within original submitted engineering designs, prior to municipal approval
- Providing prototype home designs for families to choose from before handing over government houses.
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