As media strategies go it was not the most consistent. Last month Mohammad al-Afasi, the Kuwaiti labour minister, announced that the oil-rich emirate would cancel the kafeel sponsorship system by February 2011 as a “gift” to expatriates to mark the anniversary of the country’s liberation from the 1991 Iraqi occupation.
A day later, however, an under-secretary for the same ministry performed an about-turn. The government, the official told Al Jazeera, the satellite channel, was not about to cancel the system but only to amend it to make it easier for foreign workers to transfer sponsors.
The result is confusion about the government’s real intentions, fuelling opposition and scepticism and pitting officials against recruitment agency owners.
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