Comments on: Immigration Reform Working Group’s Report

By: bdaboy

bdaboy — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 02:40:20 +0000

They hire foreigners because they’re educated and willing the work. The alternative is people like Onion Juice, who have a sh!tty attitude and no skills.

By: Onion

Onion — Fri, 03 Nov 2017 00:46:15 +0000

Seriously. As convincing as the one black Trump voter.

By: Albie

Albie — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:42:34 +0000

Lord Pitts observation that Immigration should be reduced reflects the Bermuda of 40 years ago. I met him and attended the meetings held in public. Since then the education system cratered, tourism is a shadow of what it was, local entertainment/nightlife is practically non existent, the social fabric of Bermudian families is radically diminished, we now have a massive debt and our birth rate is below replacement levels.

Without a brand new and very profitable leg for our economy we are in major trouble.

We need new job creators to be encouraged to make Bermuda their home and place of work. Give them all sorts of perks etc but require that they generate a minimum number of jobs as part of their becoming “Belongers”. Require that if they can’t find locals to fill the jobs, that they sponsor scholarships, say $10k per job not filled by a local, annually.

Without new workers be they locals or not the tax base will continue to contract which means that the hope of ever having a balanced budget or even better reducing the debt will be just a dream and as international interest rates begin to rise as they surely will the outlook for our island home is in greater peril.

By: Anbu

Anbu — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:58:39 +0000

You lot make me holler with your screen names lmfao. X ubp/oba voter. Like you ever were. just by having a name like that u expose your true self, as in a LIAR.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 15:24:58 +0000

They hire foreigneres because its easier to exploit them.

By: Onion Juice

Onion Juice — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 15:22:14 +0000

Good

By: OMG

OMG — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:52:28 +0000

Before u going calling people names maybe you need to do some research. If both married parents are Non Bermudians and the father or mother obtains PRC and then years done the line obtain status, he/she cannot pass his/her status to their spouse and children’s and that is called mixed status families IDIOT!

By: where is the rest of the report?

where is the rest of the report? — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:19:21 +0000

What if they divorce or he dies? The kids will be Bermudian but the parent has to leave once the kids are 18.

By: Hope

Hope — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 14:07:56 +0000

After 18 months and really all this report says is that “yes we should give status to those who have deserved it all along” but “yes we should consider everything else”…there really aren’t many strong recommendations in here. This seems like a report running scared.

By: X ubp/OBA voter

X ubp/OBA voter — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:35:09 +0000

Stop being a OMG = idiot!

If the father has Bda status the wife obtains it after 10 years of marriage. The kids will obtain it through the parents. Problem solved!

By: Mixed Status Couple - Voted PLP for first time ever

Mixed Status Couple - Voted PLP for first time ever — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:14:49 +0000

……….amazing how the CIRWG’s Recommendations focus on PRC’s (people who came to work and earn a larger salary than their country of domicile), yet the Report is largely silent on Mixed Status Families/Couples who suffer because of the widespread discrimination in our employment market which prefers foreign workers, forcing some Mixed Status Families to leave Bermuda simply to survive or even get entry level positions in Insurance and other sectors overseas, yet their residence overseas then prohibits them from applying from Bermuda Status, even if they have been married more than the 10 year period.

What a joke.

Hopefully the new PLP Administration has its own mind and will adhere to its promise of Comprehensive Immigration Reform as our one household vote went to the PLP for the first time in 25 years.

Fingers crossed.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:10:56 +0000

To preotect jobs for bermudians is total rubbish. Firstly, the jobs are here for bermudians its that simple. The only priblem is that many of the Bermudians not innwork are unemployable. Most are uneducated for the jobs at hand so instead of creating this bill more should be done to train bermudians for those jobs duh! Even so, i work in the hospitality industry and let me tell you the reason they hire foreigners is because they have the proper training and etiquette and knowledge of whats going on whereas the average Bermudian does not. Also i see it all the time with locals getting waiter jobs they have an attitude right at the start: its one of those ‘i will work for you under these conditions and oh ive got three kids but no fathers around so i cant work all the time and need special treatment blah blah blah.’ What employer in their right mind would want to hire and keep on people who tell the employer how, what and when they can work. The sense of entitlement to a job shouldnt mean you get the job!!!!

By: bermuda triangle

bermuda triangle — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:03:26 +0000

Totally agree. If you have been here 20 plus years, brought up families here (do not ‘qualify’ for PRC) there is no consideration for this in this childish report.

By: bermuda triangle

bermuda triangle — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:01:27 +0000

Bravo!

By: OMG

OMG — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 11:37:55 +0000

So far, all the complaints here is referring to not having enough jobs or by giving mixed families status will take Bermudians job. But you fail to realize that these people have been here for years and have already jobs. Its not fair to have a father have status but his wife and children have nothing. Alot of families are divide. Let these divided family that have already been here for X amount of years and that have been contributing to the economy grant status.

By: Onion Jiuce

Onion Jiuce — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:43:01 +0000

Consideration should be given to who the members of the immigration reform working group were. In of itself, this is page upon page of what? What are the most likely points in this, that this Government will see fit for purpose?

Gild the lily.

By: lily

lily — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:16:49 +0000

So if Bermudians can not fill an accountant position job why are there accountants filling up the same position through years?..instead of giving the job to other qualify accountants. That way no one will expect to get statues for working in Bermuda over 10 years.

By: Wake up & smell the roses

Wake up & smell the roses — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 22:32:43 +0000

This is why I left, Bermuda’s laws are backwards & divisive. Living in the stoneage.

By: jammel

jammel — Wed, 01 Nov 2017 22:28:13 +0000

No No No!