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Environment minister Cole Simons says the Bermuda Government will consider legislation banning glass bottles on beaches if the problem of broken glass persists. He spoke after several people were reportedly cut by discarded glass on Bermuda’s most po...

Ewart Brown, the former Premier, has attempted to reignite his plan for a stem cell clinic in Bermuda, according to e-mails between Dr Brown and Michael Dunkley. However, the correspondence shows the Premier and health minister Jeanne Atherden reject...

A significant increase in rates of diarrhoea and vomiting illness has prompted the Ministry of Health to issue a high-level warning. The Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit raised the alert because the number of cases of gastroenteritis is unusually ...

Transport minister Michael Fahy has dismissed Opposition criticism over the Bermuda Government’s supposedly lost $300,000 payment for public buses as “absurd and way off-base”. On Monday, online news site Bermuda Real suggested that former Director ...

A reported lost payment for buses has been blasted by Lawrence Scott, the Shadow Minister of Transport, as “irresponsibility and incompetence at its highest”. According to a Monday report by the online news site Bermuda Real, a $300,000 advance payme...

The Government’s disputed airport redevelopment contract is to be investigated by a Commission of Inquiry along with contentious projects of the past — such as Bermuda Emissions Control and GlobalHue. That independent body, which held its first publi...

The rusted building materials by the St George’s swing bridge are a “precautionary measure” while strengthening work takes place, the Ministry of Public Works has said. A spokeswoman added that although the Bailey bridge materials were originally in...

The island’s roads are still in a “pretty appalling” state in some areas despite improvements in others, according to James Jardine. Speaking in the Senate yesterday, the independent senator congratulated the Ministry of Public Works on getting to g...

The merging of the Department of Environment Protection and the Department of Conservation Services is expected to save the Bermuda Government $387,000 annually. Cole Simons, the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, told the House of As...

Bermuda must focus on the long-term sustainability of its infrastructure or face serious problems in the future, environmental charity Greenrock has warned. The organisation’s director Jonathan Starling, along with shadow environment minister Dennis...

Building materials intended to fix the St George’s swing bridge have rusted after sitting outside for five months, The Royal Gazette has discovered. Dennis Lister, the Shadow Minister of Public Works, called the matter “symptomatic of the Government’...

Dear Sir and fellow citizens of Bermuda, Perhaps someone would kindly explain to us why the Minister of Finance is choosing to use the unlikely but potential flooding from a Category 4 hurricane as an excuse to build a new airport, which we can ill a...