
By Mohammed Al A’Ali
AN urgent proposal to transfer the responsibility of restoring homes in old neighbourhoods in Muharraq from the Housing Ministry to the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities (Baca) was submitted yesterday.
The proposal by five MPs is spearheaded by Bahrainisation Committee chairman Ebrahim Al Nefaei who said that the Housing Ministry’s plan was announced around a decade ago without anything being actually done.
The neighbourhoods that include Bin Hindi, Amamra and Al Hayak are more than two centuries old.
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