Muscat, A tender of Government Treasury Bills, issue number 118, worth RO 50 million was announced this week. Treasury Bills are short-term highly secured financial instruments issued by the Ministry of Finance, and they provide licensed commercial ban…
Day: May 18, 2021
3-5 Star Hotels in Oman Receive Over 298K Guests till March
Muscat, The total number of guests in the (3-5) star category in the Sultanate till the end of March 2021 stood at 298,885 guests compared to 390,642 guests for the same period of 2020, comprising a decline by 23.5%.The total revenues of these hotels a…
Work Begins on Finalizing Last Sections of Al Batinah Coastal Highway Phase 1
Muscat, The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology floated a consultancy tender for the remaining tasks of Al Batinah Coast Highway’s First Phase, the completion of the road leading to A’Suwaiq harbour and the preparation of t…
Fitch Affirms Oman’s Rating at ‘BB-‘
Muscat, Fitch credit rating agency has affirmed Oman at ‘BB-’, the same standing as before.This outlook reflects the stringent circumstances being undergone by the Sultanate, including the need to implement fiscal sustainability and the impacts of cor…
AKAR MEETS LONGDEN, UNDP REPRESENTATIVE
Deputy Prime Minister, Caretaker Minister of Defense, Zeina Akar, on Tuesday met with the resident representative of the United Nations Development Program in Lebanon, Celine Moyroud, accompanied by a technical team.The meeting focused on ways of coope…
Health, Education Ministries Ready to Vaccinate GED Students
Muscat, The Ministry of Health (MOH) and the Ministry of Education conducted a meeting at the MOH headquarters to discuss the preparations undertaken to vaccinate general education diploma (GED) students, as well as the teaching, and administrative sta…
214,192 Vaccinated Against Covid-19 in the Sultanate
Muscat, As many as 214,192 people in the Sultanate have been vaccinated with the first dose of the two Covid-19 vaccines PfizerbioNTech and Oxford-AstraZeneca during the period from 27 December 2020 till 15 May 2021. According to the statistics issu…