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New immigration policies are to be drawn up with help from the public. A working group has appealed for people to join in and help create new rules. The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group is organising discussions on Thursday, September 21...

Watching the sorry plight yesterday of a Bermudian in England being kicked off a flight to Los Angeles re-emphasised the urgency that is required to get our passport affairs in order with the British Government. MacInnis Looby, a former champion cycl...

Michael Fahy’s decision to quit politics may be etched with disappointment at the thumping the party he helped to form took at the polls on July 18. But he remains adamant that the One Bermuda Alliance left the country in a better position than it fo...

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...

Dear Sir, The recent judgment in the case of Giles Templeman v Chairman of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal and Minister for Home Affairs is an example of the unfairness of and deficiencies in Bermuda’s laws and regulations relating to the granting of...

A woman born in Bermuda to non-Bermudian parents has won a judicial review over a rejected application to work on the island without restriction. According to a ruling by Puisne Judge Stephen Hellman, the Minister of Home Affairs had discriminated ag...

When 16-year-old Hasna Turner first put pen to paper on a book about the Uighurs in Bermuda, it was meant to be a school project. But after a year of hard work, Uyghurs: Prisoners in Paradise has found its way on to digital store shelves, with the pr...

Patricia Gordon-Pamplin has taken aim at Walton Brown, accusing the new home affairs minister of making a “political decision” in favour of an expat. While not identified by name, the statement comes days after the Reverend Nicholas Tweed returned to...

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 pressure group that campaigned in support of former home affairs minister Michael Fahy’s controversial Pathways to Status Bill has changed its name. We Support Pathways will now be called Supporting Fair Immigration Reform after it admitted the ori...

The secret deal to bring the four Uighurs to Bermuda from Guantánamo Bay was sealed after a meeting at the White House, according to Ewart Brown. The former premier agreed to an interview with The Royal Gazette to mark the eighth anniversary of the m...

Chief Justice Ian Kawaley has called for a “narrow and focused fine tuning” of Bermuda’s work permit policy in light of the legal battle between the AME Church and the Bermuda Government. Mr Justice Kawaley said the case illustrated the “folly of th...