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Reaction to the Government’s release of details of the Economic Investment Certificate policy has run the gamut. Supporters of status for long term residents are disappointed that the policy does not go further. There has been criticism that the poli...

Non-Bermudians will be able to become long-term residents if they invest a minimum of $2.5 million in the country, the Labour Minister announced yesterday. Jason Hayward unveiled the new economic investment certificate policy yesterday which will com...

Sacking workers who choose not to be vaccinated against Covid-19 would breach employment law, the Ministry of Labour warned yesterday. A spokesman added that staff who do not get the jab would still be entitled to sick leave if they tested positive f...

A few months ago I greeted a couple of Pacific Islanders and helped them find accommodations. I naturally asked how they liked being in Bermuda. To which their response was that they found the work environment much more comfortable. “How so?” was my ...

Buses were back on the roads last night after industrial action by staff meant the service ground to a halt. The unannounced walkout by Department of Transportation supervisors started yesterday morning and , left many passengers stranded. But a tran...

Employers should talk to their staff if they planned to introduce Covid-19 vaccination policies, a lawyer said yesterday. Gambrill Robinson, an associate lawyer at Canterbury Law, highlighted that the type and size of a business could be taken into a...

Minister A: “In order to combat the harsh realities resulting from a population decline we need positive net immigration; that is less emigration or people leaving the country to live elsewhere, and more immigration or people entering the country to...

The Opposition has condemned the Progressive Labour Party for “taking for ever” to tackle changes to immigration policy. Ben Smith, the One Bermuda Alliance Senate Leader, said he had spent more than two years on the bipartisan committee on immigrati...

A friend asked me in a discussion over coffee: “Khalid, what is the workforce going to look like 30 years from now?” He asked this question after experiencing some service from waitresses who seemed disconnected from us as customers. We were comparin...

Over the past week I have heard some of the following conversations: A senior requesting that someone come to fix a leak in her roof. One of my colleagues expressing that Bermudians are excluded from well-paid jobs. A lady expressed gratitude for a t...

Company managers should consider all the alternatives before staff were made redundant, a trade union said yesterday. The Bermuda Public Services Union said it feared that “unscrupulous employers” could target union members. Armell Thomas, the BPSU p...

Major immigration changes are needed to stop the island from “falling off the fiscal cliff”, the Labour and Immigration Minister said today. Jason Hayward warned that the island had to use immigration to create economic growth in the face of an agei...