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Hurricane Fiona caused outages to tens of thousand of homes — now Belco has been given an award recognising its efforts to restore power

A number of traffic routes will be restricted as Belco resumes trenching, the power company has said. The move is part of its transmission upgrade initiative and swings back into action from Monday. Trenching will resume on North Shore Road, Devonshi...

More than 600 homes lost power in West Pembroke on Monday evening. Power was cut for 616 Belco customers at about 7pm and was restored by 9.20pm. The outage ranged from Spanish Point to Pitts Bay Road, into adjacent areas of North Shore to Berkele...

Energy bills will come down from New Year’s Day for the average user, Belco has said. The electricity supplier announced that from January 1 charging structures will change, resulting in the regular household customer seeing a $6 reduction a month in...

Bermuda National Library staff put their creativity on show to win this year’s Christmas Window Competition. The display combined a love of words and books with Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet, which has become synonymous with the Christmas period. T...

A power outage that cut electricity to 1,800 homes has almost been fully resolved, Belco said this afternoon. The company said in a tweet that 99 per cent of homes throughout Warwick and Paget have received power after a tripped circuit cut power to ...

A clean air advocacy group is questioning the timeline for the drafting of new clean air laws aimed at curbing pollution, saying it has received mixed messages from the Government. The Bermuda Clean Air Coalition, launched in direct response to pollu...

The Regulatory Authority has requested that Belco submit a proposal for an updated Integrated Resource Plan that will decide the future of the island’s electricity generation. The utility company has been given a year to submit its proposal and the R...

Drivers are being asked to take extra caution on roads that are “in a state” and “inadequate” because of extensive trenching work. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the Minister of Public Works, made the plea in a statement in the House of Assembly ye...

Power company Belco has welcomed a Throne Speech commitment by the Government to update air quality legislation. Wayne Caines, the utility firm’s president, added that residents must work together to tackle pollution. He said: “Belco is committed to ...

Belco has failed to confirm or deny whether there are levels of air contaminants surrounding its Pembroke plant that exceed the UK limits with which Bermuda aims to align under new air quality laws. The UK Air Quality Objective sets the maximum numb...

Partial lane closures are set to return to Harrington Sound Road next week as Belco places fibre-optic lines in the area. A Ministry of Public Works notice said the closures will enable Belco to pull fibre-optic lines through newly installed manholes...