Libya's official government has banned Bangladeshi workers from entering the country because many were trying to use Libya as a jump-off point to illegally travel by boat to Europe, a government spokesperson said on Saturday. The North African country, gripped by violence and a breakdown of state authority four years after the ousting of Muammar Gaddafi, has turned into a major hub for human traffickers smuggling African migrants by boat to Italy. "Bangladeshi workers will be banned from entry into Libya," said Hatem Uraibi...

A 28-year-old construction worker from Bangladesh has been fined of $40,000 in default four months’ imprisonment for conducting employment agency activities without a valid employment agency (EA) licence issued by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). Ahmead Rubel, 28, helped to facilitate the employment of a fellow Bangladeshi, Jabed, to work as a construction worker in Nanjing Minglu Construction Engineering Co. Ltd from Dec 26, 2013 to June 9, 2014. In the process, Rubel pocketed $3,000 as agency fees, MOM said in a sta...

A man who was banished to Bangladesh after publicly attacking his brother was sentenced at Elgin Sheriff Court yesterday. Raheed Ahmed, 23, admitted assaulting Hussain Ahmed in the family-owned Cardamon Spice restaurant on Forres High Street on Wednesday, November 26. He was ordered to carry out 100 hours of community service over the next six months – but the court heard Ahmed’s relatives had already imposed a penalty of their own. The accused’s solicitor, Matthew O’Neill, said: “An unusual aspe...

Bangladeshi house maids top the choice of Saudi families in view of their availability and lower wages, Arab News reports. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reportedly shifted its focus of recruitment of domestic help to Bangladesh as Dhaka claims lower wages compared to the pays for house maids from the Philippines and Sri Lanka. In a report titled “Affordable’ Bangladeshi maids top choice in KSA” published on 1 May, Arab News said many Saudi families are not interested in recruiting maids from the Philippines and Sri...

Shedding the negative trend for more than a year, the remittance inflow to the country rebounded from the middle-eastern countries in the last nine months, thanks to the reopening of the manpower market for Bangladeshi workers in some of the Gulf nations after seven years. The inflow of remittance rose by 7.6% in the first nine months of the current fiscal year where the country had experienced a fall of 13% in remittance earnings during the same period of the last fiscal year, reports the Dhaka Tribune. The country received r...