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If the winter weather wasn’t enough to keep you out of the water, Bermuda’s latest visitor might. Mary Lee, a 16ft, 3,456lbs great white shark has been tracked swimming just over 100 miles to the Island’s north and could reach Bermuda’s coast within ...

Farmer Tom Wadson remains hopeful that feed costs for his pigs will go back down as he continues to look for help from the outside to maintain their quality of living. Costs for Bermuda’s iconic Spanish hog food has risen 30 percent in the last month...

Dire warnings emerge from recent workshop By Derek deChabert Plans are being formulated to rid local waters of Lionfish which are wreaking havoc on the local fish population. Jim Gleason, executive director of the Ocean Support Foundation, along with...

A new home is urgently needed for a modern population of Bermuda's iconic Spanish hogs, as local farmer Tom Wadson comes under increasing pressure from costs. “It's coming down to a question of, 'how long can you keep them?'” said Mr Wadson, who is f...

Saturday’s story about Bermuda’s four-year water shortage was another example of why Bermuda must continue to focus on the issue of ensuring that the Island has an adequate supply of fresh water. In 2006, Bermuda recorded 62 inches of rain, the highe...

Farmers are struggling to produce crops in the face of low rainfall levels which they say have plagued the Island for the past four years. The average total rainfall for this time of year is 30.25 inches approximately 21.37 inches of rain have fallen...

April 28, 2012 Dear Sir, I would like to thank the Parks Department and the Ministry of Public Works for a wonderful 2012 Agricultural Exhibition. I am a senior and was thrilled with the service provided that enabled me to park in the VIP parking at ...

Tobacco (nicotiana tobaccum) most certainly originated in central and south Americas and the Caribbean. Christopher Columbus in 1492 sailed into Cuba’s Haia de Gibara looking for gold. He found Indians in some of the islands who “smoked like chimneys...

Like many beauty queens, prize roses can be temperamental and thorny but breathtaking when they are at their best. Peter Holmes took home 15 first place prizes for his roses at the Agricultural Exhibition last week. Mr Holmes is a dedicated member o...

Organic food is raised or grown without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, genetically engineered seeds and organisms, artificial additives, plant growth hormones, sewage sludge, and irradiation. Meat, poultry and their feed ar...

One Bermuda Alliance MP Cole Simons presented a petition against licensing foreign fishing vessels to the House of Assembly yesterday, but Environment Minister Marc Bean charged that the petition was based on a “false premise.” The document by Peter ...