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Proposed changes to give immigration law priority over human rights legislation is a “blunderbuss” approach, Shadow Attorney-General Trevor Moniz said yesterday. Mr Moniz said: “It potentially has very broad consequences — it’s a danger to go into it...

The Minister of Home Affairs has dismissed calls for withdrawing a new Bill giving priority to the Immigration and Protection Act over the Human Rights Act. The Human Rights Commission has branded government plans “reckless” and warned that watering ...

Bermuda’s civil liberties watchdog called on the Government to ditch “reckless” plans to undermine human rights laws yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Human Rights Commission warned that watering down the supremacy of human rights legislation over imm...

Walton Brown, the Minister of Home Affairs, has announced the membership of the newly formed bipartisan committee on immigration reform. The committee will consist of Progressive Labour Party MPs Renee Ming and Christopher Famous and One Bermuda Alli...

Legislation will be tabled today to address challenges by non-Bermudians who claim they have been discriminated against. The Bermuda Immigration and Protection Act will be given priority over the Human Rights Act under the Bermuda Immigration (No. 2)...

Members of a protest group almost shut down a public forum on immigration reform before the meeting could start last night, as the emotive topic of Bermudian status came up for discussion. Tempers flared as the Immigration Reform Working Group gather...

Recruitment policies by employers will be closely monitored as part of a “next wave of changes” to immigration policy. Home affairs minister Walton Brown told the House of Assembly other items on the agenda would be an enhancement of the musician ent...

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...