Under the generous sponsorship of His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince, Prime Minister, may God protect him, the closing ceremony of the Prize of His Highness for the Press, a scene that is repeated every year, confirms that this award is a space for the Bahraini press and a recognition of its effort, and a title written in the name of everyone who chose to carry the pen believing that the word is honest, it is accompanying change, and prohibiting the future.
In spite of all media and media initiatives, this award has a special goat for the Bahraini journalistic community, so its first thread was woven in a moment of political awareness of the importance of the media, and its national context has grown under a leadership that believes that development is not complete without a strong press, and that free opinion is not a threat, but rather a partner that contributes to the maturity of the experience, and when the award expands and grows year after year, to include more groups and fields, It reflects clear confidence in the ability of this sector to contribute, and to ask difficult questions, without being the opposite of the current.
What is most of this year is that the award ceremony is preceded by one day before the Bahraini Journalists Association celebrated its silver jubilee, 25 years ago, the establishment of this entity, and at the first meeting of the founding committee that wanted the Bahraini media an umbrella that preserves its rights, organizes its effort, and raises the values of professionalism amid the transformations, yesterday’s celebration was a kind of nostalgia and a summons of memory, and a confirmation of the impact, and that the honoring of the founders was in it A letter of fulfillment to those who wrote the first letter on the union page of the media, and they remained on the covenant.
This beautiful coincidence, and the convergence of the celebration of the Press Award and the memory of the founding of the association, gives this week a special meaning, as the Bahraini press managed with the merits of the coincidences to show its face together on two consecutive occasions, a face that derives its momentum from the state that in turn believes and celebrates its creativity, and faces it to its first roots, to those who have established the meaning and wrote the documents These two extensions, the word goes on its natural course; High, clear, and in it loyalty is what is kept the original, and it has enough ambition to overcome the next.
In this context, the effort made by His Excellency the Minister of Information, Dr. Raman Al -Naimi, who was present in the development of the award, as well as in discussing the new press law, could not be overlooked, and it came to respond to the changes of the times, and organizes the electronic media, and expands from the area of freedoms without giving up professional standards, and these legislations are the main gate towards a more balanced media reality, moving, moving With confidence, he writes without a majesty, and knows that protection comes from the law, and the message comes from the conscience.
I congratulate the winners this year, who won the confidence of the committee and the celebration of His Highness, and wrote their names in the award record in a merit.
