MANAMA, Jan. 1 -- His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and First Deputy Prime Minister, who chaired the weekly Cabinet meeting at Gudaibiya Palace, issued directives to keep citizens welfare as a key for the Government policies.

HRH the Crown Prince directed that mechanisms be established to facilitate the provision of direct government subsidies to citizens in accordance with the approved regulations while maintaining the criteria currently in place, in order to ease the process for citizens benefiting from the cash subsidy programme.

The Cabinet Secretary-General, HE Dr. Yasser bin Issa Al-Nasser, issued the details of the Cabinet meeting.

The Cabinet condemned the terroris...