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Digital nomads with permission to work from Bermuda under a new one-year residential certificate could start to arrive as early as next week, the Premier said last night. David Burt was speaking after Jason Hayward, the Minister of Labour, said the f...

We have recently witnessed the departure of scores of expatriate workers returning to their homeland. More than 60 Portuguese nationals quit the island in a special repatriation flight because they had lost their jobs. Reports suggest many more are w...

A new head of the immigration board is to be appointed after its chairwoman became a member of the Cabinet. Renée Ming, the Progressive Labour Party MP for St George’s North and board chairwoman, took over as Minister of National Security last month ...

Do you recall who said that death and taxes are the only two certainties in life? I didn’t. But “Professor Google” set me straight — it was Benjamin Franklin. Writing a letter about the United States Constitution in 1789, he said: “Our new Constituti...

Most of the 62 Portuguese nationals who quit the island in a special repatriation flight this week left because they had lost their jobs — and many had “left for good”, the travel agent who arranged the flight said yesterday. Luisa Da Ponte, of Trip ...

A man left behind bars for more than five months longer than his sentence as he waited to be deported could leave the island on Monday, the Supreme Court heard yesterday. Angelo Toussay, 36, a French national, was sentenced to nine months in jail aft...

Emotional goodbyes were said at the airport yesterday as scores of Portuguese workers left the island on a special flight to the Azores. Various reasons were given by the people scheduled to depart for the Portuguese territory. Some said they just wa...

An effort to boost the number of Bermudians employed in the hotel industry is to be launched, the labour minister said yesterday. Jason Hayward wants to increase Bermudian representation in the sector by 6.5 per cent to 80 per cent. He also hopes to ...

Almost 160 applications for work-permit renewals were denied since Covid-19 hit the country, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Jason Hayward, the labour minister, who has responsibility for immigration, also listed more than 60 job categories af...

Donald Trump has announced that tens of thousands of foreign workers will be banned from entering the United States through the end of the year. It will take longer than that to repair the damage. The new order cancels a range of non-immigrant visas ...

Policies on work permits and Permanent Resident Certificates will be reviewed by the Government, new labour minister Jason Hayward said today. Mr Hayward pledged that work on immigration reform started under his predecessor Wayne Caines, including th...

Suggestions that a blanket denial of work permit renewals is in force are wrong, the Premier has said. David Burt emphasised the island’s work permit policy was unchanged, and that Jason Hayward, the new Minister of Labour, would speak about procedur...