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Warmer temperatures mean influx of fish

Spring has sprung! The vernal equinox has occurred and we move toward summer, believe that or not! Despite the windy conditions that make the offshore anything but inviting, there are lots of positive signs. Sure, the weather may feel on the cool si...
Mar 21, 2015
Letters to the Editor

Traffic fines could help fund Ag Show

Dear Sir, Here’s where the Government can find money for the Ag Show. Why not go and collect all the money owed for traffic violations? There is much more than $400,000 owed to the Government. People know that they have gotten away with not paying...
Mar 07, 2015
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Government forces ‘Ag Show’ cancellation

The 2015 Ag Show has been scrapped after the Bermuda Government told organisers that the event would be limited to two days. The community action group behind the move to keep alive this year’s edition said today that it was told it could use Botanic...
Mar 04, 2015
Other

Ag Show downsizing to affect Language School

The president of the Vasco Da Gama Club fears the Portuguese School they support could be severely affected by the loss of the Agricultural Exhibition. Dennis Rodrigues said that a large portion of the funds needed to run the language school were ge...
Feb 27, 2015
Other

Why the Ag Show is so important to me

For David Lopes, livestock is a way of life and the Agricultural Exhibition has been an important part of that life since he was just a boy. The 72-year-old dairy farmer hasn’t missed a show since he first participated in the early 1950s aside from t...
Feb 14, 2015
Other

Sousa launches campaign to save Ag Show

OBA MP and business owner Jeff Sousa has launched a non-political campaign to save the Agricultural Show. He is in the process of establishing a a committee to help organise the 77th annual event for which Government cut funding this year as part of...
Feb 09, 2015
Other

Community effort to save Ag Show

An attempt to save this year’s Agricultural Exhibition has received a phenomenal response, according to the man behind the bid. Jeff Sousa, One Bermuda Alliance MP for Warwick West, reached out on social media on Friday to urge the community to com...
Feb 02, 2015
Other

Residents renew fight against animal farm

A group of residents has renewed its battle against a farmer who built a series of animal enclosures and fences without the required planning permission. Last summer Daniel Heaven sought retroactive permission for a goat enclosure, a chicken coup, te...
Jan 21, 2015
Other

Why cassava growing is a labour of love

When Gabre and Deborah Swan describe their cassava pie as a labour of love, they aren’t kidding. They grow the cassava root themselves, organically. That involves tending it for two years before they can dig it up, peel it, grate it, and bake a vega...
Dec 16, 2014
Other

Crop shortage: nightmare before Christmas

Two of Bermuda’s most festive fixtures are in perilously short supply – cassava and poinsettia plants. After a particularly brutal hurricane season with back-to-back visits from Fay and Gonzalo, both crops are either in short supply or not quite up t...
Dec 11, 2014
Other

Storms have silver lining

A large crop of one of the “worst invasive species” of plant in Bermuda has been destroyed by last month’s storms. Abundant rain this year had meant there would be a hefty seed crop of Brazil pepper next year, but this has now been wiped out by wind ...
Nov 03, 2014
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Clarien reforestation draws great response

The Bermuda community responded tremendously to today’s reforestation sapling donation by Clarien Bank, which allowed residents to select one free native and endemic plant to help restore the island’s unique landscape damaged by the recent storms. Cl...
Oct 30, 2014
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