Kuwait has reintroduced a ban on the recruitment of workers from Bangladesh, reports the Kuwait Times. When contacted over phone, Abdul Latif Khan, labour counsellor at the Bangladesh Embassy in Kuwait, told the Dhaka Tribune that the labour market for Bangladesh workers was still open, although restrictions had been imposed on male domestic helpers. Wednesday’s Kuwait Times report says Sheikh Mazen al-Jarrah on Monday decided to enforce the ban after viewing statistics of the number of Bangladeshis currently residing in Kuwait. Read more– Kuwait might open doors for Bangladeshi professionalsWednesday’s KT report also says, quoting interior ministry sources, that the Bangladeshi population in Kuwait reached the 200,000 threshold at the end of the first week of September. In May, a number of Bangladeshi expatriates living in Kuwait told the Dhaka Tribune over phone that they had not been affected by the deportations.

Source: Dhaka Tribune September 07, 2016 14:03 UTC