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June is designated as PTSD Awareness Month, which concentrates on the impact of post-traumatic stress disorder among people who suffer mentally, physically and/or emotionally from a past trauma. It is a modern diagnosis commonly associated with comba...

Power firm Belco has apologised after soot from its plant landed on nearby homes. A Belco spokesman said: “We would like to sincerely apologise for this incident and undertake to quickly do everything we can to mitigate the impact to the surrounding ...

Insurers and reinsurers are being urged to end all support for new oil and gas projects to help ensure that international climate targets are met. Bermuda’s major role in the reinsurance sector, together with the island’s vulnerability to stronger hu...

A plan to install new sewage and water mains to link St George’s and St David’s as part of a waste disposal improvement scheme has been submitted to the Department of Planning. Documents delivered to planners this month by the Bermuda Land Developmen...

For some, excessively loud music is a way of life and any concern expressed by others, in their view, is an unfair complaint — even though government authorities, constantly urge people to be more considerate to others when playing their music. This ...

Two men who clashed over noisy kite-flying mended their bridges yesterday. Duvon Powell, a founder of the Kite Warriors group, and businessman Steve Thomson agreed to meet after their confrontation about hummer-fitted kites was posted on social medi...

Government will detail its plans to phase out single-use plastics in the next few months. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said it was planned to eliminate their use in about two years. Mr Roban said: “Our goal is to have the elimination o...

Dear Sir, I recently read Sophia Collis’s excellent article, “Planning the way forward on plastics: option 1”. Even though the article explained, in depth, a step-by-step process of banning single-use plastics in Bermuda, as far as I know the Govern...

Dear Sir, I am writing to those of you who continually find the need to dump your household garbage and trash into our roadside hedges and national parks — island-wide. No amount of appeals and advertisements requesting that you refrain from doing so...

2019 Environmental Statistics Compendium Today, Minister for the Cabinet Office Wayne Furbert released the 2019 Environmental Statistics Compendium from the Department of Statistics. Some of the 2017 to 2018 highlights include: • Respiratory diseases...

The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock Inc, which is among the biggest shareholders in a number of coal insurers, has placed sustainability at the centre of its approach to investments. It is now in the process of removing from certain of its i...

Dear Sir, I live In Pembroke. What is possessing this person to fly their kite on a non-windy or windy day? Is this person trying to attract attention or annoy the neighbours with the buzzers? We have had this issue about people flying kites on non-k...