Questions remain over Digicel’s mass importation of foreign labour to upgrade its network, but both government and the company have not responded to our queries about the project. In the meantime, we have obtained a list of 18 job categories for which the work permits were issued. Translators are not included on the list but our…...
Digicel imports dozens for fibre optic cable installation
Company subcontracts installation to Guatemalan companies. Flown in by private charter last night
Telecommunications company Digicel last night flew in about 80 workers from Guatemala to install an island wide fibre optics network. Many of the workers are Guatemalan, with a few from Venezuela, Colombia and Mexico. The group which consists of translators, fibre technicians and other workers will be working here for up to six months. All…...
A sit down conversation with Jason Hayward
Our inaugural chat with the president of the civil servants' union and a leader of The People's Campaign
In his first on camera sit down conversation with Think Media, Jason Hayward talks about his motivations, The People’s Campaign and tells what would lead him to drop opposition to the airport redevelopment project. See it here in full: This article belongs to Politica ! The original article can be found here: A sit down…...
Rev Tweed is “immune from expulsion” – lawyer
to stay on island pending outcome of court hearing; presiding elder expresses "jubilation"
Lawyer Delroy Duncan is to argue before a judge that AME pastor Reverend Nicholas Tweed belongs to Bermuda and cannot be ordered to leave. The AME church and Rev Tweed have won the first round of legal proceedings against the government’s decision not to grant him a work permit and to order him off the…...
Minister open to dialogue with churches on work permit policy
work permit policy shift dates back to the Progressive Labour Party government
Home Affairs Minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin is open to discuss changes to the work permit policies for churches. Gordon-Pamplin agreed that the policy which requires churches to advertise vacancies for pastors was “worth a conversation”. But she insisted that current policy must be adhered to. She spoke to Think Media following a January 6 press conference…...
St Paul AME Church “riding out the storm” undeterred
Church vows to continue speaking out on social issues in wake of pastor's work permit rejection
After several weeks in the media spotlight over a rejected work permit application for its pastor, St Paul AME church is facing the future undeterred from its social activism role. Rev Nicholas Tweed’s voice at the church regarded as the cathedral of Bermuda’s AME churches has been stilled for now but no one doubts that…...
A dozen police officers hit by pepper spray on December 2
A dozen police officers were affected by their colleagues’ use of pepper spray on protesters outside the House of Assembly on December 2. And more details have emerged about the use of force with police commissioner Michael DeSilva acknowledging that he is only aware of three persons receiving aftercare from police officers after being pepper […]
Independent panel to review airport redevelopment project
Government’s airport redevelopment deal with Canadian Commercial Corporation is to be reviewed by an independent panel of local experts in finance, accounting and economics, finance minister Bob Richards announced today. Richards indicated to the media that he was confident that the panel would conclude that the controversial deal is the best option for Bermuda. He […]
Bishop appoints new A.M.E. presiding elder
Criticises Premier and acting minister Cole Simons over handling of work permit row
St Paul A.M.E. church now has a new presiding elder – Reverend Howard Dill – in a move which removes administrative responsibility of the church from Reverend Betty Furbert-Woolridge. The development could boost a campaign to force government to rescind its decision not to renew Reverend Nicholas Tweed’s work permit. Bishop Gregory Ingram made the…...
UK indicates airport entrustment conditions not yet met
but Whitehall is "comfortable" with progress
As controversy continues to swirl around the airport redevelopment project, Government House is not yet ready to say that Bermuda has met met entrustment conditions imposed on it by the UK Government. Deputy Governor Ginny Ferson struck a positive note but would only say that the UK was “comfortable” with progress on meeting the conditions…...
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