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On December 8, the Fiscal Responsibility Panel’s 2018 report was published. The executive summary said: “A precondition for faster growth is to increase the island’s workforce. It is the only realistic counter to the island’s demographic challenge fr...

A surge in work-permit approvals emerged in figures provided in the House of Assembly for September through November. Work-permits applications suffered a backlog earlier this year, and the minister in charge switched on November 1 in a Cabinet reshu...

Bermuda snubbed a meeting with British parliamentarians in London yesterday. The Foreign Affairs Select Committee had invited Overseas Territories to give evidence in an inquiry into the relationship with the Foreign Office. Walton Brown, the Cabinet...

The efficiency of the Department of Immigration in dealing with work permit applications was one of the topics discussed in talks involving government officials and the body that represents the island’s international re/insurance industry. Wayne Cain...

The Premier has “forcefully” called on British authorities to resolve problems for Bermudian travellers after the printing of Bermuda passports was shifted to the UK. A government spokeswoman said David Burt and Walton Brown, the Minister for the Cab...

Dear Sir, Bermudians are losing their homeland to outsiders. The jobs are given to these people by our own local employers. Some barely speak or understand English. One restaurant I went to, the waiter did not know what I was asking for when I aske...

Shadow home affairs minister Sylvan Richards has predicted that the Government will be forced into “doing the same as the One Bermuda Alliance” in granting Bermudian status to long-term residents. Mr Richards, made the prediction in the House on Fri...

The public have been kept in the dark about government plans for immigration reform, it was claimed yesterday. A spokeswoman for pressure group Supporting Fair Immigration Reform said the lack of progress was a broken promise by the Government. She a...

Large and small countries the world over are experiencing the disruption of many norms — how we treat one another, how we communicate, our own expectations and the delivery of goods and services. There is no society on Earth that is not being affecte...

Tennis pros from overseas will need to win approval by the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Association to get work permits, the Government said yesterday. Walton Brown, the home affairs minister, said the move was made to ensure Bermudian tennis pros were given ...

A former Bermuda resident nominated by Donald Trump to be the American ambassador to South Africa was convicted of immigration violations on the island. Lana Marks, now a designer of luxury handbags and President Trump’s pick for the top US post in S...

The home affairs minister said the Government was considering the introduction of an English test for work permits. Walton Brown said consultation on the proposal is under way and tests could be introduced before the end of the month. Mr Brown said: ...