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Sylvan Richards Responds To MP Walton Brown

Junior Minister of Home Affairs Sylvan Richards has responded to MP Walton Brown’s comments, saying that if Mr Brown “wants a good example of a really contemptuous dismissal of an Ombudsman’s findings,” they suggest he read comments Opposition Leader Marc Bean made in the House of Assembly last year. Mr Richards said, “Walton... Read more of this article

Brown: “Unacceptable In A Democratic Society”

[Updated] “The attack by Minister Fahy on the office of the Ombudsman is unacceptable in a democratic society” and we “stand with the Ombudsman Association and the International Ombudsman Institute in support” of the Bermuda Ombudsman, Shadow Immigration Minister Walton Brown said today. Background In releasing their annual report... Read more of this article

Ministry & Overseas Groups On Ombudsman

[Updated] Following letters by the International Ombudsman Institute and the Ombudsman Association expressing their concern in relation to the Minister’s comments about the Bermuda Ombudsman’s report, the Ministry of Home Affairs said they “will continue to support the work of the Ombudsman but in this particular case she has overreached.” In... Read more of this article

Brown: “Should Be A Cause For Concern To All”

“The continued assault on a constitutional officer of the Bermuda government by the OBA Senators should be a cause for concern to all Bermudians,” Shadow Immigration Minister Walton Brown said today. Mr Brown said, “In the wake of a damning report by the Ombudsman over the Ministry of Immigration’s mishandling of a work permit... Read more of this article

Minister: Ombudsman’s Report Is “Disturbing”

[Updated with video] Commenting on the recently released Ombudsman’s Annual Report, Minister of Home Affairs Michael Fahy said he finds the Report “disturbing,” and the two Departments did “absolutely nothing wrong and for the Ombudsman to portray anything other than that is utterly false and misleading.” In releasing the... Read more of this article

MP Brown “Deeply Alarmed At Flagrant Violation”

Shadow Immigration Minister Walton Brown said he is “deeply alarmed at the flagrant violation of immigration laws by a company operating in Bermuda and even more so by the refusal of Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy to act responsibly and take the sound advice of the Ombudsman, as published in the 2014 Ombudsman’s Annual Report.” “The... Read more of this article

Ombudsman For Bermuda Issues Annual Report

Victoria Pearman, Ombudsman for Bermuda, issued an Annual Report for the calendar year 2014, saying that “our Annual Report provides a review of the Ombudsman’s first year in Office. “It shows how the Ombudsman has achieved strategic aims set out in her message in the Annual Report 2013. The strategic aims are separated into sections,... Read more of this article