It mentions the present day & historical unfair & unequal treatment of its people. The denial of British [OT] citizenship right’s to children, now adults of descent, born abroad, outside of marriage. While the same category of children, now adults, with mainland UK fathers, got give a retrospective right to register for their father’s nationality under Sec 65 Immigration Act 2014. The same category of children, now adults of BOT descent, were intentionally left out due there being “No time to consult” the territories before the implementation of these amendments (per Home Office Minister Lord Taylor of Holbeach and Lord Ahmad). The same historical discrimination does not apply to BOT mothers, or anyone born to a father or mother after 1 July 2016

Page 3 (Summary): “the UK Government needs to ensure that those who should be able to claim British Overseas Territories citizenship can do so.”

Paragraph 4, Pages 58: “The issue of citizenship by descent stems from an anomaly in the British Nationality Act, which means that fathers with British Overseas Territories Citizenship cannot pass it on to children born outside the OTs between 1948 and 2006 if they were not married to the child’s mother at the time of birth. In May 2018, the Joint Committee on Human Rights described this anomaly as an unacceptable form of discrimination, while Montserrat’s representative, Janice Panton, said it “has caused a lot of anguish among some parents.” Lord Ahmad is not able to indicate when the matter would be resolved. He said that “discussions are ongoing across Government on this.”

Paragraph 4, Point 60: “The Government should urgently address concerns in the OTs about the issue of citizenship by descent and anomalies in the British Nationality Act that have taken too long to resolve.”

The people of the OTs have a right to be fully informed and engaged on the issue. We hope this post will raise the conversation and get people to demand their OT Elected leaders & Governors have a hand in fixing this demeaning and hurtful piece of legislation which places our flesh & blood at a disadvantage.

Everyone these days seems so sensitive but completely negligent to reality.

As a British Overseas Territory the UK is responsible for ensuring we meet our human rights obligations.

If you do not like the rules of the club, you leave the club.

David Burt or any other elected member does not have the right to deprive one set of BOT citizens of their rights. The game is up and the days of riding rough shod over peoples rights is coming to an end.

You mean like what you are doing with the municipalities? Unjustified intervening, right? Retrograde recommendations, right?

I thought this news item was going to do about PLP trying to take over the Corporation of Hamilton and St George’s!

Bermuda has only and always thrived when our doors have been open. For the past dozen plus years, we have become such a shuttered, paranoid society that even large numbers of Bermudians are leaving – and interestingly large numbers of young, educated black ones who not only see limited opportunities here but are largely bored out of their skulls with all our collective baggage and carry on. It is this mindset that has to change and a good start would be by making this a welcoming and embracing country rather than the presen one which seems to operate on begrudgery and ancient grudges. Come on politicians of both parties, this is actually an opportunity to lead and turn over a new leaf.

Pot, have you met Kettle?

I would think they would have started at home first.

While the Cayman Premier stated that he’ll lead the charge to Independence?

Stop being dramatic..