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Campaigners supporting the Bermuda Government’s Pathways legislation are calling for immigration talks to encompass those born on the island or who arrived at a young age. The We Support Pathways Facebook group is voicing concern at Progressive Labou...

A series of public meetings on the topic of mixed status families have been arranged by the Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group. The group, which is examining immigration policy in the light of protests sparked by the controversial Pathways...

A Bill reforming the process by which adopted children can obtain Bermudian status has been passed in the House of Assembly. The Bermuda Immigration and Protection Amendment (Adoption) Act 2016 specifies that adopted children with at least one Bermu...

David Burt has accused the Bermuda Government of being “either tone-deaf or stupid” when it tried to “push down the throats of this country” the Pathways to Status Bill. The acting Opposition leader told The Royal Gazette the proposals that sparked p...

The Department of Immigration has maintained that there was “no ministerial influence or interference” behind a raid on former One Bermuda Alliance MP Shawn Crockwell’s home. Mr Crockwell resigned from the party on Friday claiming the OBA had targete...

It was nice to see that the work that Sir John Swan and I did in 2012 was recalled and remembered. Way back then, we both knew and understood that residential population had fallen and that this was a major driver of Bermuda’s then four-year-old rece...

Government’s bid to grant status to overseas residents was flawed, a former top banker said yesterday. Philip Butterfield, former chief executive officer and chairman of HSBC Bermuda, said: “I think it was wrong in how it was addressed to date becaus...

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has delivered its recommendations on adoption. The proposal for legislative reform was sent to Michael Dunkley, the Premier, as well as Minister of Home Affairs Patricia Gordon-Pamplin and Bermuda In...

Progressive Labour Party MP Diallo Rabain has accused the Bermuda Government of issuing “essentially illegal” work permits to motor mechanics, landscape gardeners, electricians and welders. Mr Rabain said he was “shocked” to learn from responses to p...

The 2008 global recession. Who would have thought when it started that Bermuda in 2016 would still be feeling the economic effects of it? Why is this? And why did other countries such as the United States come out of recession so quickly by compariso...

The Supreme Court has upheld a finding that a construction company only hired “black faces” to justify requests for work permits. In a 2012 ruling, the Human Rights Commission found that Apex Construction Management Limited had discriminated against ...

The Consultative Immigration Reform Working Group has called on the public to give their thoughts on the concept of immigration and adoption. Any person who is adopted by a Bermudian is deemed to be Bermudian until their 22nd birthday. To achieve Ber...