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Fishermen have rebuffed an offer to join talks on a conservation plan being drawn up for Bermuda waters and accused government officials of ignoring their views. The Fishermen’s Association Bermuda called for a halt to the drafting of the Bermuda Oce...

Ten young people have won recognition as climate ambassadors at the island’s second annual Youth Climate Summit. The group of alumni from the 2021 summit pitched in for a year of activities following the inaugural call to arms against climate change,...

No secret deal exists behind Bermuda’s draft marine conservation plans that have drawn the ire of fishermen, the Minister of Home Affairs insisted yesterday. Walter Roban spoke after the Fishermen’s Association of Bermuda threw down the gauntlet on t...

Angry fishermen have threatened the Government with legal action over a sweeping marine conservation strategy they said was hatched in secret. The Bermuda Ocean Prosperity Programme, unveiled in August, proposes marine protection areas with 20 per ce...

Steps to regulate the importation and use of pesticides were welcomed as “long overdue” by the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Task Force The move, announced this month by Kim Wilson, the health minister, would consolidate oversight under one m...

A seniors’ residence with ten apartments has been proposed for a site just outside Hamilton. The planning application by the Bermuda Real Estate Investment Trust, run by physician Kyjuan Brown, was posted this month and shows designs which include a ...

Turks & Caicos, a sister jurisdiction to our south, has offered lessons for Bermuda in bringing about regrowth from ecological disaster. On the eve of a three-year tree-planting drive to be launched tomorrow by Clarien Bank with the Bermuda National ...

A businessman said his life was threatened at a stormy public meeting held in St David’s over a medical waste facility planned for Southside. Donte Hunt, chief executive of MediWaste, said he had declined to take action but reported the matter to pol...

A packed meeting of St David’s islanders vowed to fight the construction of an incinerator plant planned at Southside to dispose of the island‘s medical waste. A forum of more than 100 residents last night heard their area had been treated as a “dum...

The Devil’s Hole Aquarium in Smith’s, once an iconic attraction, may have fallen off the map – but the fish and turtles are still happily swimming at the sea-fed cave. Although it is shuttered as a business, the tidal pool is home to many creatures, ...