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A documentary on the history of the Portuguese and how they came to Bermuda is due to be released at the end of this month after ten years of work. Milton Raposo, a Bermudian film-maker of Portuguese ancestry, said the film, Fabric: Portuguese Histor...

The Azores president said last night that Bermuda’s recognition of the Azorean contribution to Bermuda made him proud. Vasco Cordeiro, the president of the Azores regional government, said the first Portuguese immigrants who arrived 170 years ago wer...

Dear Sir, In your publication dated October 28, 2019, the headline proclaims “Immigration activist critical of PLP”. In the article, Robert Pires advocates on behalf of the mixed status of families in the Portuguese community and attributes what he p...

The number of complaints about alleged immigration breaches since January has already surpassed the total for 2018. Compliance officers have received 128 reports so far in 2019, compared with 126 overall in the previous year. The total for 2017 was 1...

A family told last night how a dream holiday to Japan for the Rugby World Cup turned into a nightmare after immigration officials denied them entry. Jayne and Justin Kendall and their sons, Tyler and Aiden, were held in “cells” overnight before they ...

The Minister of National Security urged a British politician to help bring back the BMU code to Bermudian passports during talks in London, he said yesterday. Wayne Caines attended a series of meetings in the UK capital last week. He met Seema Kenned...

An Opposition MP who is part of the bipartisan immigration reform committee has assured residents that the group is doing all it can to “get it right”. Leah Scott, the deputy leader of the One Bermuda Alliance, said members were taking a “measure twi...

Last week during the motion to adjourn in the House of Assembly, those in the chambers and, indeed, the wider listening audience were treated to former Cabinet minister Sylvan Richards throwing a challenge to members of the Progressive Labour Party. ...

Legislation to ease the plight of mixed-status families will not be tabled today as expected after MPs were “at odds” over the changes, a public meeting heard last night. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, told the audience that his tea...

Delays to legislation designed to ease the plight of mixed status families could signal challenges for the Government’s delivery of comprehensive immigration reform, an Opposition MP claimed. Sylvan Richards, the Shadow Minister of Home Affairs and t...

A rescheduled town hall meeting to discuss immigration reform will take place on Thursday, it was announced this afternoon. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, will host the event at the Berkeley Institute cafetorium from 6.30pm until 8p...

An advisory group has called on a faster and more transparent immigration policy as the island awaits the details of promised immigration reform. BermudaFirst’s Future State Report, the second phase of its national socioeconomic plan, said any new im...