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Companies that worked hard to submit bids for a Government recycling collection contract were told to do it again because they were at first told to provide a copy of a licence that was not needed. A request for quotations issued by the Ministry of P...

I will never forget my first hour when I arrived in Bermuda by cruise ship. It was seven years ago, in May. I had been working on board for five months and had visited many tropical islands. I loved to sit and look at the endless expanse of the ocea...

A government minister rejected advice from civil servants to block all-terrain vehicle tours on the Railway Trail, a court heard. The Supreme Court heard yesterday in a civil case that Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the public works minister, overru...

Our oceans are linked intrinsically to the health of our planet. The sea sequesters much of the carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere, thereby slowing global warming. It regulates our climate and cools the planet, and it facilitate...

An environmentalist has urged the public to pressure the Government to stick to its green promise to ban single-use plastic such as straws. The Progressive Labour Party pledged to eliminate single-use plastics by 2022 in the Throne Speech last month....

Gibbons Company is to introduce new, reusable and recyclable shopping bags in a bid to help reduce the amount of plastic waste in the ocean. The new bags are made out of recycled plastic water bottles and are designed with an ocean theme. They come ...

What’s so scary about climate change? The term is not scary — at least not in a visceral, skin-crawling sense. Scientists have shown that the likely two degrees of global warming to come this century will be extremely dangerous, but, you know, “two d...

Dear Sir, We were fortunate enough to enjoy five days in Bermuda recently. We loved the beautiful scenery, lovely weather, friendly people, and amazing turquoise seas — and would love to visit again. However, we were surprised at the lack of environm...

A snowball stand owner called yesterday for abandoned cars to be shifted from land beside a play park so he can regenerate the area for local people. Alfred Butterfield said he wanted to make the area next to the Pembroke playground safe for children...

Dear Sir, I see that Makin Waves is no longer using plastic bags. I think we could take it a step farther. Who uses more plastic bags than the grocery stores? I think customers should be charged a small fee for bags, and all of that money should be...

The director of development at a solar energy firm has won a top scholarship to the UK to help him boost the renewable energy industry in Bermuda. Stratton Hatfield, of BE Solar, won a Chevening Scholarship, which will allow him to take a master’s de...

A mound of trash has caused an eyesore on one of Bermuda’s most scenic routes for several days. It is thought some Paget residents were unaware of a change to their collection day, meaning when they left out bags of garbage it was already too late. O...