Log In

Members of the public can now buy wheelie bins for their trash and recyclables as part of a pilot programme launched by the Ministry of Public Works. The garbage bins have a capacity of 360 litres and cost $125. The 140-litre recycling bins cost $40...

Teachers have “grave concerns” about pupils and staff at an East End school contaminated by asbestos, the head of the Bermuda Union of Teachers said yesterday. Shannon James, the president of the BUT, said that the union demanded the highest standar...

The latest group of graduates to complete the Parks Department’s skills development programme were honoured this week. The programme was designed to train Bermudians aged between 19 and 25 who were interested in learning about horticulture and the l...

Free clinics to help people understand planning applications will be held every three months, the Minister of Home Affairs announced. Walter Roban said the clinics would mean the public can get advice on planning regulations outside normal office hou...

A renewable energy company has predicted it will exceed expectations with a new solar farm on a disused airport runway. Saturn Solar Bermuda 1 explained its objectives in a string of documents submitted as part of a licence application posted on the ...

An area of the Sargasso Sea is more polluted with microplastic than a notorious high pollution part of the Pacific, researchers said yesterday. The shock news came as environmental group Greenpeace revealed the results of a two- week survey of the Sa...

An international environmental group warned last night that the amount of plastic found in the Sargasso Sea off Bermuda was “much higher than expected”. Celia Ojeda-Martinez, of Greenpeace, was speaking as part of a nine-month expedition on the organ...

Shareholders of Ascendant Group Ltd have approved a takeover attempt by a Canadian utilities group. They gave overwhelming backing to the bid from Algonquin Power and Utilities Corporation, in a meeting held at the Hamilton Princess & Beach Club yest...

Dear Sir, The advice from Sir John Swan and Michael Murphy to Ascendant shareholders in their opinion in August 6 edition of The Royal Gazette was apt. The more so because of its timing, although I doubt the shareholders will subordinate their potent...

Greenpeace will team up with the Government for a forum on the oceans plastic crisis. The international environmental charity will highlight its research on plastics in the Sargasso Sea at Plastics Night Aboard the Esperanza on Monday. Home affairs...

Suppliers of low-emission buses have been asked to submit bids for vehicles for Bermuda. The Ministry of Tourism and Transport and the Department of Public Transportation issued a request for proposals for “appropriately sized, accessible, and low-em...

An endangered species of snail saved from extinction by a breeding programme has been released into the wild. More than 11,000 greater Bermuda land snails, bred at a British zoo, have been given a new home on Morgan’s Island, which is owned by the Be...