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Government’s recycling facility is back and running at full capacity. A Ministry of Public Works statement noted that the backlog of materials held at the old recycling centre at Devon Springs had been removed and processed. The island’s blue bag re...

Butterfield Bank is introducing a new Post-Graduate Scholarship for students studying in academic fields associated with the protection and improvement of island environments. Butterfield has operations in seven international locations, most of which...

Former Cabinet Minister Zane DeSilva is accused of telling six lies to the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee when it quizzed him last year about the $24.5 million refurbishment of Port Royal Golf Course. A lawsuit filed by Attorney-General Trev...

Vegetable garden, fine grade compost will next be available just in time for spring planting, according to the Marsh Folly Composting Division. In a press release, the section, within the Waste Management Section of the Ministry of Public Works, said...

Bermuda’s small cahow population is welcoming a new member after a baby bird hatched from its shell last night. Located in its burrow on the Nonsuch Island colony, it began making a break from its egg at about 1am yesterday and finally hatched at 9.4...

Environmental group Greenrock has blasted last week’s Budget, calling it “unsustainable and unimaginative”. Jonathan Starling, the charity’s executive director, praised an increase in funding for recycling and composting programmes, but the organisat...

A Bermuda-based scientist is set address a select committee of the House of Commons tonight on the subject of ocean acidification. Nick Bates, Director of Research at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, will speak to the Science and Technology C...

I took time in the Senate this week to remind senators and Bermuda that soon after this government took office, it passed the Corporation of St George (Unesco World Heritage Fund and Levy) Act in 2013, which enables the town to collect a tax on fuel ...

The Department of Health is to offer free gardening sessions every Thursday in March as part of activities for Nutrition Month. Five sessions will teach the public to grow fresh, nutritious food while helping to cut grocery bills. Mellonie Furbert, p...

Environmental group Greenrock will be hosting a Living Green Expo at City Hall next month, aimed at local businesses who could help people to “Live Green”. The event is designed to form a framework that will “encourage collaboration, share ideas, cre...

Students at Harrington Sound Primary School were recently given a hands-on marine research experience with the help of the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences. A group of 39 P6 pupils at the school spent three days and two nights at BIOS, taking part...