More people have come forward complaining about broken glass buried in Bermuda's beaches.

On Wednesday, Raine Burgess spoke out after her four-year-old son, Daente Burgess, stepped on a shard of glass at Clearwater Beach. The glass had been buried under a thin layer of sand and the boy needed 25 stitches in his foot.

After The Royal Gazette reported the story, several people contacted us to say they had come across similar problems.

Richard Bartlett, who regularly plays volleyball on Horseshoe Bay, complained that on Wednesday evening, games had to be stopped several times after broken glass was found beneath the sand.

"Seven or eight times we had to stop to pick up glass," said Mr. Bartlett. "It looks like there must have been some sort of party. It was all beer bottles.

"Luckily, nobody got hurt. There were some pretty big pieces. It was pretty nasty."

Michael Korff said in an e-mail that he and his wife picked up four shattered bottles on Wednesday at Horseshoe Bay.

"It seems like the bottles were buried and I assume the tractor drove over them," wrote Mr. Korff. "The beaches are almost the single most important commodities Bermuda has. This is seriously dangerous."

Nicolas Plianthos e-mailed and also complained about the garbage hidden in the sand.

"Every time we play volleyball, for the two hours we are playing we are always having to pick up bottle tops, bottles and all sorts of rubbish."

Mr. Plianthos suggested that more trash cans and more frequent beach cleanups might help solve the problem, along with making sure the trash cans in the area were emptied more often.

He also suggested making those guilty of littering clean up the beaches as part of community service.

However Mr. Plianthos said he believed that the bigger problem was people's mindset.

"I'm not sure how one can fix this problem as the attitude people have when going to the beach is the issue.

"The fact that we are allowed to drink on the beaches is a real problem, since you can't do that in South Africa, for example.

"However if you go to a crowded beach in South Africa and dig up some sand, you will get an equal amount of sand and cigarette stubs. Such a shame."