On July 26, 2013, a Royal Decree was issued extending the powers of the Supreme Defense Council and granting it the authority to adopt strategies and programs for the development of national security. Upon reviewing the laws governing the performance of this Council, it will be clear that establishing the security doctrine and drawing the security policy is limited to members of this council, which consists of first and second-rank Al Khalifa figures and probably some individuals from families loyal to the ruling family exclusively.

About 600 Bahraini figures are to take part, along with a Zionist delegation, in the Entrepreneurship congress to be held in a few days. Meanwhile the widespread popular campaign is still expressing condemnation, but its demands have fallen on deaf ears.

Today is my mother’s birthday. Like every mother, she would love to spend it surrounded by her family and friends. However, for the third year running, my mother will spend her birthday in a cell in Bahrain’s notorious Isa Town Prison, in which she is confined for 23 hours a day, said Duaa Alwadaei.

Responding to the statements of MP Ahmed Al-Salloum, the Electricity and Water Minister Abdulhussein Mirza denied the government intention to lift subsidies on electricity services for citizens provided for the first house.

The High Cassation Court upheld on (April 8, 2019) life sentences against 2 defendants and 15-year jail term against the third over the "Imam army" case.

The Fourth High Criminal Court sentenced 5 defendants to 3 years in jail over charge of putting fake bomb in Jid Ali.

Two people were killed and two others arrested in a security operation in Saudi Arabia's eastern Al-Qatif region, state security said in a statement on Monday.

President Donald Trump said on Monday he would name Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, in an unprecedented step that drew Iranian condemnation and raised concerns about retaliatory attacks on U.S. forces.

Bahrain's Foreign Ministry on Monday welcomed the U.S. decision to designate Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization.

Bahrain rolled out a new program of support for the 100 Arab start-ups shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution, at the recently concluded World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa which concluded its work in Jordan on Sunday (April 7, 2019).

Member of the Finance and Economic Committee, MP Ahmed Al-Salloum, said that the electricity and water authority works on plan to zero out the amount of governmental support provided to citizens' bills by 2030, according to the Minister of Electricity and Water Abdulhasan Mirza during the last meeting that gathered the joint committee of Shura Council and House of Representatives with the government.

Fawzia Zainal, Speaker of the Council of Representatives, said that some human rights organizations that take negative stance from the Kingdom of Bahrain rely on false sources of information and malicious sources.

Progressive Democratic Tribune's central committee renewed the term of Khalil Yousif as a Secretary-General of the society in its first meeting on Sunday after the elections held last week.

The General Federation of Bahrain Trade Unions described the "invitation of a Zionist delegation to an economic conference to be held in Bahrain in April, under the auspices of Labour Fund "Tamkeen", as suspicious and shocking to Bahraini workers and people."

Member of the Finance and Economic Committee, MP Ahmed Al-Salloum, revealed that the total profits of Bahraini companies that "Mumtalakat" owns shares in their capital amounted to BD 212 million.

CEO of Bahrain Commercial Facilities Company Adel Hubail said that "new car sales grew by 4% in 2018," indicating that the decisive factor in high sales was the announcement of the VAT implementation at the beginning of 2019. He said that the increase was monitored in December 2018.

First Vice President of Bahrain's Chamber of Commerce and Industry Khalid Al-Najibi said that the issue of owed money to small and medium-sized enterprises by the government has become an obsession to these enterprises, and has greatly affected their work.

MP Ahmed Al-Sallom revealed that the Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications' revenues reach 50 million Dinar for every fiscal year, 50% of them are obtained from passengers' fees.

The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Bahrain announced on Thursday boycotting the 140th General Assembly meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, which will take place in Doha.

Campaigners for democracy and human rights in Bahrain have criticised David Beckham and other British celebrities for attending Sunday's Formula One race in the Gulf state.