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Changes to improve the island’s immigration laws could be on the law books by the end of July, the national security minister signalled yesterday. Wayne Caines said the latest report by the bipartisan Immigration Reform Group was submitted to him las...

The individuals behind the “Supporting Fair Immigration Reform” Facebook group and our members would like to applaud the Honourable Chief Justice for his decision recently to invalidate a $5,000 fine imposed on Ms Ashley Aguiar for taking unpaid work...

A young woman fined for doing unpaid work as a schoolgirl said last night she hoped the incident would inspire changes to immigration law. Ashley Aguiar, 22, who was born and brought up in Bermuda, said she was pleased the $5,000 fine for working wit...

A $5,000 fine served on a schoolgirl who got work experience as a hairdresser without a work permit has been quashed by the Supreme Court. Chief Justice Narinder Hargun ruled that the Chief Immigration Officer was wrong to penalise Ashley Aguiar for ...

An increase in immigration would boost the island’s struggling retail sector, the Leader of the Opposition said yesterday. Craig Cannonier said he was alarmed by figures that showed a decline in sales for seven months in a row and insisted action had...

Complaints to the Department of Immigration about suspected breaches of immigration law have reached 115 to date in 2018, Wayne Caines, the national security minister, revealed yesterday. There were 150 tip-offs to the department in 2017, Mr Caines a...

The US Consulate will be closed for Christmas and new year. A spokeswoman said the Consulate’s offices on Devonshire’s Middle Road will be shut from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day and reopen on December 27. The Consulate will also be closed on January 1...

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...