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Legislation that sparked a march on the Cabinet Building was approved by the Senate this week, despite Opposition criticism. The Bermuda Immigration and Protection Amendment Act 2015 expands the ability of Permanent Residence Certificate (PRC) holder...

Hundreds of protesters interrupted last night’s sitting of the Senate to demand a “bipartisan, collaborative dialogue” on immigration reform. Police ordered the public to leave the Cabinet Building after Senate president Carol Ann Bassett brought pro...

On Friday, March 13th, 2015, the PLP laid a motion before Parliament requesting a formation of a Joint Select Committee (JSC) on comprehensive immigration reform. Opposition Leader Marc Bean explained the reasoning behind the proposed motion: “The...

Junior Home Affairs Minister Sylvan Richards hailed Government’s progress on immigration during the Budget debates, despite questions and challenges from the Opposition. Delivering the Budget brief, Mr Richards noted the introduction of a new work te...

Minister of Home Affairs Senator Michael Fahy has announced today that in fewer than four days after the Department of Immigration posted a “Wanted Person” poster on its website, Robert George McFarlane has been apprehended and deported. According t...

The previous Government’s Immigration policies have been blamed for many of Bermuda’s economic woes since before the onset of the Great Recession and one of the central promises of the One Bermuda Alliance was to reform the policies and make them mor...

Dear Sir, Getting any recipe exactly right requires having the correct ingredients with which to begin and then the proper mixing of same. Consider this: Bermuda’s population has the correct ‘people’’ ingredients — that being a population mixture fr...

The war of words over the Bermuda Government’s new work permit policy has rumbled on, with both sides continuing to trade blows. Yesterday morning, Walton Brown, the Shadow Minister for Immigration, castigated the policy, saying “permitting the child...

A Jamaican national has become the first person to feature on a wanted poster on the Department of Immigration’s webpage. Robert George McFarlane, 46, is believed to be residing in Bermuda illegally, according to the department. The poster states tha...

Work permit policies for 2015 will come into effect on Sunday, Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy said today. The public have been advised that the policies have been slightly amended to account for the internal administrative processes at the Depart...