While you're trying to decide whether former Premier Sir John Swan's recent warnings about international business are genuine or just scaremongering, keep in mind these comments made by a senior Bermudian reinsurance executive earlier this year: "The threat of departure...
The nasty smell of xenophobia hanging around some of the members of the Government continues to worsen. First, Immigration Minister Derrick Burgess suggests that non-Bermudians should stay out of local politics. Then the same Minister drives through legislation restricting the...
The Bermuda Immigration and Protection Amendment Act 2007 is the most offensive piece of legislation that the PLP have passed in their time in office. The Act is supposed to crack down on “fronting”, the practice where a Bermudian buys...
Police have uncovered an al-Qaeda cell that was actively planning terrorist attacks in Bermuda, Immigration Minister Derrick Burgess said last nighti Mr. Burgess said that the conspirators were planning to crack jokes of dubious taste at several locations around the...
Something is wrong when a company that goes the extra mile to provide good customer service is threatened with significant penalties as a result. By considering revoking the right of Four Star Pizza to employ expats because a foreign manager...
bermuda vigilante offers "a response to the nonsense".
There’s a new anti-expat leaflet being circulated. This one is a little nastier than those that have come before. The message starts in a way likely to make many recipients nervous: “We’ve been watching and we know you are not...
I've been told that a number of anti-foreigner leaflets have been posted around Bermuda. I've not seen any myself, but apparently they say: "To all who this may concern, please leave we don't need you, foreign workers are taking up...
Jonathan Starling writes: "If the reports on the radio and the newspapers are correct about the beating of a Portuguese individual in the Docksiders pub on Wednesday July 5th, then it would seem that, at the very least, a racial...
The Government’s decision to exempt holders of foreign driving licences from parts of Bermuda’s driving test is a step in the right direction. However, I would have scrapped the need for such drivers to take any of it. A Bermudian...
Community Affairs Minister Dale Butler stands up to xenophobic Bermudians: Most Bermudians don’t have any issues with foreigners. The ones who do are usually working class, Mr. Butler said. “They think the Filipinos are coming in here and doing the...
Tom Vesey has a first-rate summary of why work permit term limits are bad for Bermuda in Friday's Bermuda Sun. "Beginning over the next year, there will be a mass exodus of perfectly qualified non-Bermudians who have been here six...
Local bookstores and the Chamber of Commerce have been making a fuss about the arrival of the floating bookshop Logos II, which dropped its gangplank on Front Street yesterday. I think its arrival is a good thing. The local retailers...
When Bishop Ewen Ratteray sent Canon Alan Tilson back to Ireland earlier this year, it was clear that his explanation – that both Canon Tilson and the parish needed a change – was bunk. Both Canon Tilson and his parishioners...
Several weeks ago there was an interesting article in the Bermuda Sun about why some Bermudians choose to emigrate. The article looked at the undergraduate thesis of Alaina Cubbon, a Bermudian student at Oxford University, who surveyed 92 Bermudian emigrants...
Does Bermuda really suck? This site seems to think so.
I'm not without sympathy for the plight of the expat who was fired from his position as a consultant with Applied Computer Technologies (ACT) on Friday, after being on the Island only three weeks. I know how stressful uprooting your...
Am I imagining things, or did Stuart Hayward have a go at me in his column in Friday's Bermuda Sun? While I'd like to think I'm above the paranoia and self-importance that such an assumption would normally require, his choice...
I was shocked and saddened - but not entirely surprised - to hear that the work permit of Rev. Alan Tilson, minister of Holy Trinity church in Hamilton Parish, is not to be renewed. Rev. Tilson was the minister who...
I can’t quite decide what to make of the legislation introduced by the Government last week which bans Bermudians from selling property to non-Bermudians for the next five years. I’ve always thought it odd that an Island with such limited...
One of the reasons often given for spiralling rents in Bermuda – and it was mentioned again in Friday’s editorial in the Mid Ocean News – is the housing allowances that some expatriate workers are given by their employers. An...
The ‘culture of fear’ that inhibits work permit holders and those dependent on non-Bermudian labour from making public comments on Bermudian politics is “unwarranted” according to Chief Immigration Officer Martin Brewer. Mr. Brewer made his comments in an email to...
I'd like to offer Calvin Smith belated congratulations for his excellent opinion piece in last Wednesday's Royal Gazette calling on the Government to scrap term limits for the work permits granted to Bermuda's expatriate workers. As an editorial in the...
It's well-known that Bermuda doesn't have enough accountants, lawyers or software developers, and so needs to bring in expats to plug the gaps. What I didn't realise until today was that we also seem to have a shortage of people...
Premier Alex Scott has been defending the Government's odd policy on work permit term limits again. The 2001 policy restricts expats to a maximum stay of six years, or nine years for "key staff". The effect of this policy will...
Someone's fed up with all the expat bashing that goes on here. As the letter writer points out, it's a Bermudian immigration department who allows the expats to come here in the first place, Bermudian landlords who are charging the...
Came in for some random racist abuse today. At about 6.15pm this evening, Francis, Steve and I were walking along Church Street from the office to the cinema when a black guy driving past on a scooter yelled at us...
It seems the government may be in the process of executing a face-saving climbdown on the vexed issue of term limits for expats. The Royal Gazette reported today that a number of companies are in the process of being designated...
I love reading the Letters to the Editor in the Royal Gazette, Bermuda's only daily newspaper. The letters page of the London Times it ain't. There's usually at least one letter in there every day from some crazy, aging Bermudian...
Had my ears lowered today. That's Bermudian for "had a haircut", in case you were wondering. This is only the third time I've been since moving to Bermuda, but when I called to make the appointment I discovered that my...
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