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It is not unusual to be handed a bag, set of cutlery, straw and cup all made of plastic during a single lunch trip in Bermuda. The environmental group Plastic Tides is hoping to put an end to the practice and even has aspirations to see Bermuda go vi...

Dear Sir, Did anyone who read Diallo Rabain’s statement yesterday on the Rubis fuel leak think there was more politics to it than real concern for the environment? I have been following reports since the leak was first reported and believe Rubis, wit...

Hidden beneath the grass, soil and layers of sand dredged from the Flatts Inlet lies the remnants of Eve’s Pond. The Hamilton Parish pond was filled in the 1920s with dredged material that was pumped to the site by pipeline and few of the residents l...

Conservationist David Wingate has overseen every pond restoration and creation project to have taken place in Bermuda over the past half-century. Most have involved the restoration of natural ponds that were filled in with garbage and rubble during t...

Nearly 20,000 gallons of gasoline was spilt in a leak at the Rubis terminal in St George’s last week, the company has confirmed. Three government ministers and Michael Dunkley have been briefed by Rubis officials on site. In a statement issued yest...

Environmental group BEST has expressed serious concern over President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back Obama rules aimed at curbing climate change. Stuart Hayward, president of the Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce, said his feel...

A fuel leak for which two international environmental specialists have been brought to Bermuda has been stopped, a St George’s MP has confirmed. The spill at the Rubis facility on Ferry Road was reported to the Ministry of the Environment on Tuesday...

Environmental group Greenrock has blasted last week’s Budget, calling it “unsustainable and unimaginative”. Jonathan Starling, the charity’s executive director, praised an increase in funding for recycling and composting programmes, but the organisat...

I took time in the Senate this week to remind senators and Bermuda that soon after this government took office, it passed the Corporation of St George (Unesco World Heritage Fund and Levy) Act in 2013, which enables the town to collect a tax on fuel ...

Dear Sir, I applaud you for printing the opinion authored by Wendell Hollis and Andrew Outerbridge on the design and construction of a new international terminal building for Bermuda. The sentiments expressed by these two Bermudian professionals clea...

The Bermuda Environmental Sustainable Taskforce is hoping to fight off its financial troubles by collaborating with fellow environmental watchdog Greenrock. President Stuart Hayward, who said he had been uplifted by the community reaction since BEST ...

Just minutes after Donald Trump took over as President, WhiteHouse.gov was updated with his new priorities. Among them? An “America first” foreign policy. Trump has laid out a staunchly nationalist vision for America, a zero-sum world where our need...