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Planning renovations at the historic home of Verdmont will benefit from enhancements thanks to a $10,000 donation from The Garden Club of Bermuda. The donation was made to the Bermuda National Trust museum and gardens as part of the Garden Club’s 10...

Dear Sir Under the heading “Mother Nature has a mind of her own. Look after her”, written by my horticultural colleague, Malcolm Griffiths, which appeared in your paper on July 19, 2021, I must commend his comments, which echo my own. I came to Bermu...

The new executive director of the Bermuda National Trust has called for a slowdown in land development proposals. Karen Border said last week that she recognised that land development proposals were a way of stimulate the economy after the Covid-19 p...

Government has spent $1.6 million on infrastructure projects as part of its short term stimulus programme aimed at boosting the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. David Burch, the public works minister, said today that five of 16 proj...

The One Bermuda Alliance has joined environmental groups in opposition of proposed changes to planning legislation. The amendments, tabled earlier this month by Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, would remove the need for Special Development...

An environmental drive to create a coastal red mangrove forest on Trunk Island has been boosted by a $125,000 donation from Aspen Bermuda. Aspen will give $25,000 a year over five years to support the Bermuda Zoological Society project on the Harrin...

The first longtail of the year to hatch out of hundreds of nests monitored around the Castle Harbour area in St George’s took to the skies for the first time on July 4. Live-streamed footage was taken of “Sunny”, a White-tailed Tropicbird chick, from...

Dear Sir, How many ways can I say thank you? It is always gratifying to know that when you call; they will answer. The recent dedication of The Sun and Sand Patio at Shelly Bay was the culminating answer to the call. Efforts to engage the community i...

This is the last in a series of articles by members of the Marine Debris Task Force on marine debris in Bermuda and how to reduce dependence on plastic Addiction is a serious matter, and difficult to overcome. The world has become addicted to p...

Special development orders, legislated for parliamentary scrutiny ten years ago, are no longer to go before the House of Assembly under legislation tabled on Friday. But Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, told The Royal Gazette there were “no p...

Low oxygen levels in Spittal Pond may have caused a number of fish to die at the site in recent weeks. A spokesman for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said dead juvenile snappers were collected from the shoreline at the eastern e...

Environmental groups have balked at a plan to fill in a cave at John Smith’s Bay as part of a coastal protection effort. But Government has defended the project, arguing that it will reduce potentially hazardous erosion. According to the application...