Dear Sir

This would be a direct message to the One Bermuda Alliance.

We are all aware of the mountain that you have to climb to make Bermuda a worthy destination again. We also know why.

However, it is without a doubt that the immigration department is the most sensitive when it comes to local employment and the economics therein. There must be an overwhelming regard to hire and promote the Bermudian in the workplace, fairly.

It is too easy to simply put a bid tender out and take the least expensive. With the number of Third World worker possibilities desperate for a job, or a company outside of Bermuda so able to underbid a Bermuda organisation, Bermudians will not have a hope in hell of being able to compete.

In the day when Bermudians were working as opposed to being outsourced, and displaced by foreign countries, the immigration policy was to our benefit.

Now we have human resources, telephone operators, property managers, catering services, and so on ... all outsourced.

This is no different than hiring an illegal and paying cash under the table — because it does not protect the Bermudian.

OBA, I can’t express to you loud enough the importance of doing right for the (born) Bermudian worker, black or white.

That will be a major determining factor of the outcome of the next election. Immigration is almost useless if companies are allowed to outsource the majority of our jobs.

HAVE TO FIND A SOLUTION