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A new Immigration Act could be introduced next year to address inequities in the present system, according to Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs. Mr Brown also pledged that the new government would “explore with a level of urgency” how to res...

Police certificates will now be required with work permit applications, the Minister of Home Affairs announced today. In a statement issued yesterday, Walton Brown said: “As we move to carefully scrutinise applicants, the request to submit police cer...

Former Berkeley Institute principal Michelle Simmons has been appointed an independent Senator. Ms Simmons joins Joan Dillas-Wright and James Jardine as the independents in the Upper House after Carol Bassett, President of the Senate since 2008 and a...

Legislators return to Parliament next month with a new Cabinet position under Lovitta Foggo designed to steer Government reforms. The ministry, Ms Foggo’s first portfolio after ten years as an MP, will involve fresh scrutiny of good governance measur...

A new portfolio will address Bermuda’s ageing and increasingly chronically diseased population, the new Junior Minister for Disability Tineé Furbert said yesterday. Ms Furbert was speaking after Senators Crystal Caesar, Vance Campbell and Jason Haywa...

Social activist Eva Hodgson has urged the Government to improve the plight of black Bermudians by “deliberately, consciously and publicly” tackling the island’s economic racial disparity. Dr Hodgson, who frequently accused the previous Progressive La...

The youth wing of the One Bermuda Alliance yesterday unveiled a new executive line-up. The new chairman of the Future Bermuda Alliance is Justin Mathias, with former St George’s MP Nandi Outerbridge interim deputy chairwoman and Nick Kempe interim de...

New Attorney-General Kathy Lynn Simmons told a press conference yesterday that two “very sensitive” civil lawsuits launched by her predecessor had cost taxpayers more than $2 million and had been handled in an “unprecedented and concerning” way. Howe...

New home affairs minister Walton Brown has pledged a “truly inclusive” consultation period before introducing immigration reform. Mr Brown said the Immigration Reform Working Group is tasked with producing a report based on the principles that Bermud...

A young campaign team helped to propel the Progressive Labour Party to a landslide General Election victory last week with the simple philosophy that communication is a two-way street. From using social media to interact with voters instead of merely...