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Resident blasts Belco after neighbourhood homes are covered in ‘black snow’ from new power station

A broken sewage main has caused a partial closure of Point Finger Road with residents complaining of foul smells in the area. A spokeswoman for the City of Hamilton said that the break happened opposite the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital. “The cit...

A mother whose toddler son’s foot was gashed by broken glass at a beach appealed yesterday for people to be more careful with bottles. Rebecca Barker said a pleasant day out turned to shock after her son crawled from Somerset Long Bay the beach towa...

A school has turned trash into treasure to create a calendar designed to highlight plastic pollution. The 2022 calendar for Mount Saint Agnes Academy features works of art created by pupils from discarded pieces of plastic collected from around the i...

A fuel company said last night it is in discussions with Belco after complaints over fumes in the Ferry Reach area. Alcindor Bonamy, general manager at Sol Petroleum Bermuda, said the company had already engaged in discussion with the Department of N...

Residents in St George’s have called for action over a foul stench from the Ferry Reach oil dock. One resident, who asked not to be named, said the smell had forced him to stay indoors and shut all the windows. He added: “When it first starts, the st...

People eat about a credit card’s worth of plastic every week, it was revealed at a youth climate change summit yesterday. The stomach-churning news was featured in a video presentation that showed that people ingested about five grams of microplastic...

Youngsters will discuss their concerns about the future in a televised event tomorrow. The Bermuda International Youth Summit, organised by the Hamilton Rotary Club, will allow youth groups and university students to air their views on topics such as...

An environmental pressure group has appealed to the Government to “take a progressive stance and truly be a role model in the fight against climate change”. The Bermuda Clean Air Coalition made the call just before next month’s UN Global Climate Chan...

Retailers concerns about a proposed ban on single-use plastics will be heard, the Government said this week. Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, said at a press conference that he was pleased by the feedback that had already been received as ...

Plans to introduce fees for single-use plastics in the run-up to an outright ban could be scrapped, a policy paper has warned. The paper said that the Government had earlier pledged to introduce a charge for single-use plastics but the 2020 deadline ...