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...
Certification scheme to be fixed – Gordon-Pamplin
Government has pledged to fully implement a 2009 requirement for electricians, welders, auto mechanics and landscape gardeners to be nationally certified. Work permits in those areas will be conditioned on the employee gaining national certification within 3 months, failing which the holder will have to leave the island, according to home affairs minister Patricia Gordon-Pamplin....
I did not order Crockwell home immigration raid – Gordon-Pamplin
Immigration minister says bona fide illegal worker investigation targeted other homes besides the former minister's
Former tourism minister Shawn Crockwell’s home was one of several targeted by immigration officers in a recent bid to ferret out an illegal worker, according to minister in charge of immigration, Pat Gordon-Pamplin. Gordon-Pamplin stressed that the raid was part of a bona fide investigation of which she knew nothing beforehand. Crockwell, who cited the...