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“See the hypocrites, dem a galang deh” – B ob Marley It is always amusing to hear persons or organisations expose a degree of hypocrisy between what they say versus what they actually do. After the October 2020 General Election, and with a ch...

Dear Sir, What is home? On many occasions people have told me to leave Bermuda and go back home. Usually, these people are at their own low point, so I don’t take it much to heart. However, now more than ever, it’s the carefully considered actions of...

A new immigration policy designed to attract investors in Bermuda could hurt condominium sales, a top real estate has warned. Buddy Rego, of Rego Sotheby’s International Realty, said non-Bermudians must have a Permanent Residents’ Certificate to purc...

More than 400 'digital nomads' are now in Bermuda, Curtis Dickinson, the finance minister revealed yesterday. Mr Dickinson gave the number as he wrapped up his statement for the 2021-22 Budget yesterday. The one-year residential certificate programme...

Reaction to the Government’s release of details of the Economic Investment Certificate policy has run the gamut. Supporters of status for long term residents are disappointed that the policy does not go further. There has been criticism that the poli...

Non-Bermudians will be able to become long-term residents if they invest a minimum of $2.5 million in the country, the Labour Minister announced yesterday. Jason Hayward unveiled the new economic investment certificate policy yesterday which will com...

Minister A: “In order to combat the harsh realities resulting from a population decline we need positive net immigration; that is less emigration or people leaving the country to live elsewhere, and more immigration or people entering the country to...

Politics can be very much a matter of broad strokes, with opinions and preferences formed by impressions, relationships and histories — both family and personal. It is a factor that should be never overlooked or discounted as being of no little or no...

Biometric testing for visa applications will be available for two days next month, Government House announced today. Biometric scans are needed for British visa applications but access on-island has been limited by Covid-19 travel restrictions. A spo...

Digital nomads have helped boost income at a charity shop set up to raise funds for families in need. Sheelagh Cooper, the chairwoman of Habitat for Humanity of Bermuda, said that the organisation was “thrilled” by the support for its ReStore on Hami...

A friend asked me in a discussion over coffee: “Khalid, what is the workforce going to look like 30 years from now?” He asked this question after experiencing some service from waitresses who seemed disconnected from us as customers. We were comparin...

Immigration changes proposed by the One Bermuda Alliance in 2016 would have boosted the island’s economy, a former senator has claimed. But Dwayne Robinson, an OBA senator from 2018-20, said his party’s Pathways to Status immigration legislation was...