HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THE OBA TO START DOING THE SAME THING IN THE ISLAND???

One last question: All you people who attack each other on racial/ political lines, will you treat the children of the bloggers you attack the same way? Now that’s scary because the cycle continues. Grow up and lets have a intelligent and respectable debate.

But you don’t, do you.

Furthermore, the policy states that a company must demonstrate why an ex-pat is chosen over a Bermudian. They must make a case for why the Bermudian is not a suitable candidate for the position. And they have to pay a fee. I’d say the deck is already stacked in Bermudians’ favour.

What are these fake qualifications? I know that for my work permit, I had to provide my degree and certificates. The DoI does require proof of qualifications, how much more do you want?

Sad thing is they ruin it for the rest of the civil servants that bust their a** every day.”

Bermudians are horrible they are lazy and unreliable at home and stealing other people’s job and benefits abroad…….horrible horrible Bermudians……..according to Tasha Fasha Masha

Why would anyone who’s job is advertised every two or three years feel compelled to spend all of it here and not make provisions for the future?

A strict work permit policy and expats sending large chunks of their wages home will go hand in hand.

The amount for investments was 3.8 billion.

How many Bermudians with zero qualifications are overseas collecting health paychecks while others are unemployed. We have three our four football players in the UK, USA and Canada making a living at a sport?

Sad thing is they ruin it for the rest of the civil servants that bust their a** every day.

My career has been relatively successful but not to their level financially. So this misinformation about bringing in foreginers because they are the experts, etc etc are in the minority. They are NOT the experts. We simply have not learned to trust our own people and truth be told, our people have not been encouraged enough with this total slave mentality headgame reliance on foreigners and constantly brainwashing ourselves to think we are not good enough. Yes there are some success stories here and there, but after all of this time we should be teaming with Bermudians all throughout IB who should look to US as the experts! But that is still not the case and this is sad indeed.

Yes it’s true more young Bermudians could try to get in and make IB their career choice but with the shenanigans to try and keep an IB worker whose work permit is expiring or expired, as you describe and also seeing first hand how employers twist and customize advertisments to suit the foreigner they want to keep here, etc, (increasing the number of years of experience is an easy one they use) it is no wonder that there is discouragement and the same story is played like a broken record, ‘..well we couldn’t find any suitable Bermudians’. The same thing has been happening for the last 30+ years and the picture stays the same with these games being played over and over and over and over again and the goal posts shifting over and over and over again. Work permit policy after work permit policy throughout the decades simply will not stop an IB employer who is hell bent in hiring who they want to hire and that is usually a non Bermudian. I wish I can be proven wrong. Smh! I really do not see things having changed that much because no Govt (PLP or other) have really been successful in insisting on BERMUDIANS ONLY on a consistent basis! And it’s a catch 22 because we want IB business so there tends to be more appeasing done to keep them here and let them do what they want at the expense of Bermudians. There will always be loopholes found to avoid hiring the Bermudian. Always.

What was your point?

the disparities that you speak of seem related but i have no intelligence unless you do that the examples you cited are residing here illegally. if that is indeed the case then i imagine there will be wanted posters all around this island.

the wanted posters may be effective but hardly justifies the witch hunt approach. Bermuda is better than that. the simple way to address it would be to station an immigration officer at the ports of departure to check for over-stayers and mete out a hefty fine and/or detain them until it is paid. But make sure the warning is properly displayed.

Time to stop letting admin staff come to Bermuda, train up, get qualifications and then become Key workers to the detriment of local young people with college degrees who cant find work when they get back but are denied entry level or admin roles simply because they dont have the right accent

Look how many will now be ignored with this new summer jobs milk round when PRC and work permit holders children come for summer holidays to take all the jobs

Crazy Bermuda we have really bought this trickle down rubbish hook line and sinker and gotten hoodwinked in the process

I work in IB at the VP level, do not support the PLP and am accountable for top line revenue growth so I know well enough what the issues are on a macro level impacting our economy and my ability every day to position Bermuda as a viable proposition for the large cap corporates and UHNWI which I steward.

Its time for us to stop blindly allowing people who have been laid off to stay and seek employment, especially when they are in direct competition with highly qualified Bermudian candidates who are often overlooked or maligned at the hiring stage because they don’t spend time on the weekend with the hiring manager socially.

On your points about “we need expats to buy groceries, etc etc” i have used this argument to keep key people here in the past but we are at a critical juncture now where we are giving employees who are not “key worker” material way to much opportunity, if they are as valuable as they are being portrayed they can easily find highly paid jobs back home, now equipped with Bermuda Market experience to contribute to US, UK and Canadian GDP and retail consumption.

I would rather avoid more local mortgages being impaired due to job losses, than perpetuate the dangerous imbalance we have now created where every secretary, TA, AVP, VP is somehow a Key Worker and a major contributor to Bermuda’s economic survival.

Without calling names, recently a gentleman i the insurance sector died, during his short Bermuda career he was allowed on more than one occasion to stay here for long periods, unemployed, actively seeking employment until he then found something and was then hand selected, each time based on relationship and not any advanced aptitude from his Peer Group, many of whom are way more qualified than he was.

Am not going to get into the new Work Permit Policies, will leave that the the Government to defend as i see merit in some of the widening, but this Wanted poster, for a blue collar worker is laughable – to reverse your argument, is his consumption of alcohol, other substances, rent, groceries and whichever households he buys groceries for …….any less valuable ? than the person going to Miles once a week to buy their next flan for a dinner party to lament their loss of employment and last years $45,000 – $150,000 performance bonus.

As far as the Department of Immigration is concerned, the reality is you guys act on complaints and repeatedly will throw man hours at chasing labourers through back-of-town, instead of spending minutes emailing UK and US companies to verify the fake qualifications that many in IB enrol for on being awarded a contract here, and then get their new bermuda employer to pay their course fees because they could only afford their monthly travel card and groceries back home, before landing the dream job in bermuda where they become a much coveted and seemingly now irreplaceable, “Key Worker”