Interior Minister postpones hike in traffic services fees

Manama : Interior Minister Lieutenant General Shaikh Rashid bin Abdulla Al Khalifa yesterday postponed a ministerial order to increase certain fees in traffic services, a few hours after it was publicised in the Official Gazette.

The Interior Ministry yesterday announced that the minister directed to postpone the ministerial order No (9) of 2018 of the fees for the services of the General Directorate of Traffic.

The order included an increase in certain services provided by the directorate, such as driving license renewal, vehicle registration and other services.

The increase went viral on social networks, especially that it comes within two weeks of imposing several taxes and increasing the prices of multiple products such as gasoline, and cinema and parking tickets.