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The Ministry of Home Affairs is in the final stages of consultation about new methods to prevent work permit violations. The announcement comes less than a week after the Grotto Bay Resort was fined a total of $8,000 for two counts of unlawfully empl...

Less than two thirds of guest workers have signed a declaration acknowledging that they are not entitled to permanent residency on the Island — more than two months after the deadline to submit the document passed. According to Minister Michael Dunkl...

Grotto Bay Hotel manager JP Martens yesterday pleaded guilty on behalf of the hotel to illegally employing two US citizens. The hotel were charged last month with five counts of employing non-Bermudians without the permission of the Minister of Home ...

Over 2,000 Bermudians are registered at the Department of Workforce Development (DWD), a figure that fluctuates on a regular basis, but not all of the individuals on the database are unemployed. “Some are underemployed and seeking more significant e...

Work permit violations by employers will soon become “ticketable offences” carrying fines of up to $5,000. Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy announced the initiative as part of plans to strengthen the Department of Immigration’s enforcement powers o...

Business visitors attending meetings here will soon have a separate line when they go through Immigration, Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy said yesterday. And the requirement to carry a paper work permit on arrival at the airport may soon be a thi...

Association of Bermuda International Companies (ABIC) executive director Richard Winchell has been nominated to chair the Work Permit Stakeholder Group, Government announced last night. The group, formed as part of the ongoing work permit reform proc...

Shadow Home Affairs Minister Walter Roban has pledged to monitor how many Department of Immigration investigations are conducted this year in light of the new Government’s “get-tough” approach to work permit violations. The Department’s compliance se...

May 3, 2013 Dear Sir, I was somewhat confused by the article in today’s paper. First of all I agree with Minister Fahy that BOT passports could only be given to the men through naturalisation. Then further on in the article, Governor Fergusson confir...

Talks have been ongoing between the US, UK and Bermuda authorities since the controversial decision by then Premier Ewart Brown to bring the Uighurs to Bermuda in 2009. Ablikim Turahun, Khalil Mamut, Abdulla Abdulqadir and Salahidin Andulahad were pa...

Talks with the UK and US governments over the Uighurs continue, Premier Craig Cannonier said yesterday. Mr Cannonier told The Royal Gazette that the issue was raised with Overseas Territories Minister Mark Simmonds and added that the UK position is ...