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The US Consulate will be closed for Christmas and new year. A spokeswoman said the Consulate’s offices on Devonshire’s Middle Road will be shut from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day and reopen on December 27. The Consulate will also be closed on January 1...

On December 8, the Fiscal Responsibility Panel’s 2018 report was published. The executive summary said: “A precondition for faster growth is to increase the island’s workforce. It is the only realistic counter to the island’s demographic challenge fr...

A surge in work-permit approvals emerged in figures provided in the House of Assembly for September through November. Work-permits applications suffered a backlog earlier this year, and the minister in charge switched on November 1 in a Cabinet reshu...

Bermuda snubbed a meeting with British parliamentarians in London yesterday. The Foreign Affairs Select Committee had invited Overseas Territories to give evidence in an inquiry into the relationship with the Foreign Office. Walton Brown, the Cabinet...

The efficiency of the Department of Immigration in dealing with work permit applications was one of the topics discussed in talks involving government officials and the body that represents the island’s international re/insurance industry. Wayne Cain...

The Premier has “forcefully” called on British authorities to resolve problems for Bermudian travellers after the printing of Bermuda passports was shifted to the UK. A government spokeswoman said David Burt and Walton Brown, the Minister for the Cab...

There is perhaps very little difference between a supposition and a hunch. Of the two words, I think “hunch” is the more innocent. I have been a political observer for more than 40 years and for the most part the issues were clear and the political p...

Dear Sir, Bermudians are losing their homeland to outsiders. The jobs are given to these people by our own local employers. Some barely speak or understand English. One restaurant I went to, the waiter did not know what I was asking for when I aske...

Dear Sir, I have always expressed to you my fascination with the process and functions of psychology and just how important the subject matter of psychology is when it comes down to learning and understanding the finite details as to how people think...

Shadow home affairs minister Sylvan Richards has predicted that the Government will be forced into “doing the same as the One Bermuda Alliance” in granting Bermudian status to long-term residents. Mr Richards, made the prediction in the House on Fri...

The public have been kept in the dark about government plans for immigration reform, it was claimed yesterday. A spokeswoman for pressure group Supporting Fair Immigration Reform said the lack of progress was a broken promise by the Government. She a...

Young talent will flee Bermuda to find opportunities in other countries if the island’s population trends are not dealt with, a political commentator has warned. Denis Pitcher was speaking after a recent population projections report highlighted that...