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Black people have suffered a sharp income drop while white people saw a small increase, the latest census report revealed yesterday. The Population and Housing Census Report for 2016 showed black workers had an average 13 per cent decline in income b...

The Ministry of Home Affairs is to release interim reports concerning immigration reform, it was announced yesterday. A spokeswoman said public meetings would also be held as “specific milestones” were reached. It came after pressure group Supporting...

A Bermuda link to a Caribbean influx to Britain 70 years ago has surfaced after a scandal erupted in the UK about the treatment of the emigrants. The BBC said the liner HMT Empire Windrush, which took hundreds from the Caribbean to Britain in 1948, t...

A pressure group has called on the Government to continue its work to reform Bermuda’s immigration laws. Supporting Fair Immigration Reform warned that the island could face problems similar to those in Britain over the Windrush generation — a group ...

A fresh attack on Britain’s decision to stop passport printing in Bermuda has been launched by the Minister of Home Affairs. Walton Brown said that the change, made two years ago, had led to delays and travel confusion for Bermudians travelling to th...

Work-permit holders with “serious” criminal records unknown to the Department of Immigration have been found on the island, the home affairs minister said yesterday. Walton Brown said the requirement for employers to submit police certificates was st...

Bermuda’s population is ageing with those aged 65 and over now representing the third most populated group in Bermuda, according to the 2016 Census of Population and Housing. Highlights from the report were presented in Parliament yesterday by Lovitt...

Bermuda’s population dropped by 458 over four years to 63,779, the 2016 Census figures reveal. The statistics in the preliminary report released yesterday also recorded a surge in the number of homeless people — up from 82 in 2010 to 138, a 68 per ce...

Census results for 2016 are to be examined by Cabinet in the new year. The census, which gathered a range of statistics on the island’s population, was completed between May 2016 and last March. Government said the survey had a 95 per cent response r...

Often, far too often, during canvassing over the past few years when we are looking for fellow Bermudians we are finding out that they no longer reside in Bermuda. We do not yet have exact government figures. However, by our own canvassing figures we...

The number of births in Bermuda rose last year for the second time in five years. But the number of marriages fell to 450 from 509 in 2015 — an 11.6 per cent drop. Walton Brown, Minister of Home Affairs, said: “In 2016, there were 591 births — an inc...

Non-Bermudians holding British Overseas Territories Citizen passports need a visa to visit the United States, Walton Brown warned today. The Minister of Home Affairs told the House of Assembly the issue was brought to light after the spouse of a Berm...