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The new executive director of the Bermuda National Trust has called for a slowdown in land development proposals. Karen Border said last week that she recognised that land development proposals were a way of stimulate the economy after the Covid-19 p...

Government has spent $1.6 million on infrastructure projects as part of its short term stimulus programme aimed at boosting the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. David Burch, the public works minister, said today that five of 16 proj...

The One Bermuda Alliance has joined environmental groups in opposition of proposed changes to planning legislation. The amendments, tabled earlier this month by Walter Roban, the Minister of Home Affairs, would remove the need for Special Development...

An environmental drive to create a coastal red mangrove forest on Trunk Island has been boosted by a $125,000 donation from Aspen Bermuda. Aspen will give $25,000 a year over five years to support the Bermuda Zoological Society project on the Harrin...

The first longtail of the year to hatch out of hundreds of nests monitored around the Castle Harbour area in St George’s took to the skies for the first time on July 4. Live-streamed footage was taken of “Sunny”, a White-tailed Tropicbird chick, from...

Dear Sir, How many ways can I say thank you? It is always gratifying to know that when you call; they will answer. The recent dedication of The Sun and Sand Patio at Shelly Bay was the culminating answer to the call. Efforts to engage the community i...

This is the last in a series of articles by members of the Marine Debris Task Force on marine debris in Bermuda and how to reduce dependence on plastic Addiction is a serious matter, and difficult to overcome. The world has become addicted to p...

Special development orders, legislated for parliamentary scrutiny ten years ago, are no longer to go before the House of Assembly under legislation tabled on Friday. But Walter Roban, the home affairs minister, told The Royal Gazette there were “no p...

Low oxygen levels in Spittal Pond may have caused a number of fish to die at the site in recent weeks. A spokesman for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources said dead juvenile snappers were collected from the shoreline at the eastern e...

Environmental groups have balked at a plan to fill in a cave at John Smith’s Bay as part of a coastal protection effort. But Government has defended the project, arguing that it will reduce potentially hazardous erosion. According to the application...

Although much of the world is still battling the pandemic, which has disrupted lives and continues to have an impact on several countries — not least Bermuda — world leaders gathered in Cornwall, England, for the G7 summit that saw America’s new admi...

Maybe it is a sign of old age when one becomes sensitive about subjects such as democracy or the lack thereof. Certainly, day-to-day management items tend rather to look at the implications of broader moves that affect the freedoms and livelihood of ...