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Aideen Ratteray Pryse was today named the Island’s new Planning Director. She takes over the post from Trevor Leach, whose contract ends on May 31. Ms Pryse was Assistant Director of Planning until she left the department in 1999 and launched ARP Co...

Ombudsman Arlene Brock has again called on Government to honour its commitments to the UK Environmental Charter, reiterating that the charter is legally binding. Last year the Ombudsman said in a report that the then Government had acted unlawfully b...

Almost 500 school students have signed up to learn more about what is potentially the worst ecological disaster to hit the western Atlantic in recent history. An interactive exhibit on the lionfish, an invasive species depleting juvenile fish stocks ...

Environmental campaigners have renewed calls for Planning procedures to be made more open in a bid to stop developments getting the go-ahead behind closed doors. The Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce (BEST) spoke out after Environment Mi...

Government is to allow fishing in an area that was once closed to fishermen during the summer months. The decision to amend the boundaries to the southwestern seasonally protected area was made following “thorough research and in-depth consultation” ...

A proposal by environmentalists to legislate a fee for disposable bags has drawn mixed reviews from the public. Greenrock and the Bermuda Marine Debris Taskforce are behind a campaign to have shoppers pay 25 cents for disposable bags in an effort to ...

Bermuda celebrated Earth Day with the official opening of a new nature reserve in Southampton yesterday. The eight-acre Vesey Nature Reserve has been saved from future development thanks to the generosity of Sharon Vesey, who donated the site to the ...

Environment Minister Sylvan Richards carried out plenty of spade work during the Island’s celebration of Earth Day yesterday. For before planting a tree at a new nature reserve in Southampton yesterday evening, the Minister was on hand to do some mor...

Environment protection agency BEST is calling for an overhaul of Planning regulations to “reduce incidences and perceptions of cronyism or political bias”. The group has made the call in the wake of controversial decisions by former Planning Minister...

Keep Bermuda Beautiful (KBB) got a helping hand from the Association of Filipinos in Bermuda — and Warwick’s Astwood Park is the better for it. The group gathered 56 bags of beer bottles, plastic bottles and other litter from the South Shore beauty s...