Negotiations are underway between Bahrain’s MPs and the government to scrap electricity and water subsidies for expatriates and big businesses. Parliament’s public utilities and environment affairs committee chairman Adel Al Asoomi, who also chairs the special sub-committee formed to study subsidy cuts, revealed yesterday that an initial agreement had been reached with Energy Minister Dr Abdulhussain Mirza during a closed meeting held at the National Assembly Complex, said a report in the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication.

 

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