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Action group Take Back Our Park has started an online petition to let people have their say over a maintenance yard being built in the middle of the Botanical Gardens. Take Back Our Park wants to see work on the yard, which includes two new two-store...

In response to protesters objecting to an “industrial” maintenance hub in the Botanical Gardens in Paget, Public Works cited the property’s lengthy history of heavy-duty use. Last night’s statement was issued after the formation of an action group, T...

Plans to turn the Southlands estate into a new National Park are expected to go before Cabinet in the coming months. A spokesman for the Department of Parks told The Royal Gazette that “several options” were being reviewed, Yesterday, the Bermuda Env...

The Botanical Gardens and Arboretum have been reopened after extensive clear-up of hurricane damage. Shelly Bay Park and playground, Parsons Road Park and playground, Warwick Long Bay playground, Astwood Park, Elbow Beach and the South Shore beaches ...

Sections of the Botanical Gardens and the Arboretum have been reopened as the Department of Parks continues its post-hurricane cleanup work. According to a spokeswoman, the Department has now completed major clearance works to roadsides and schools, ...

Efforts are under way to ensure all emergency services can access national parks after a locked gate delayed rescuers from reaching a drowning child. A bystander had to break the lock on the gate of Admiralty House Park last Friday afternoon to allow...

Youngsters from CedarBridge Academy and Opportunity Workshop were have been honoured for their work with Parks staff in keeping the Arboretum and other areas up to scratch. The groups worked alongside professional staff in the Aboretum, the Deputy Go...

Disputes between two Government departments and the Bermuda Industrial Union grew yesterday, with Parks Department workers downing tools and ferry service remaining suspended despite an injunction. In an e-mail to Home Affairs Minister Michael Fahy f...

November 25th, 2013 Dear Sir, The Royal Gazette of Friday, November 22, 2013 had an article calling for the halt to a project within the Botanical Gardens, spearheaded by the Parks Department, for a maintenance yard. Area resident Claire Smith is ab...

A new park is planned for Court Street, where an empty, tree-shaded lot currently stands beside the junction with Dundonald Street. The concept for Court Street Park was approved today by the City of Hamilton, according to mayor Graeme Outerbridge. T...

Warwick’s Southlands estate is to be turned into a national park, and could open to the public as early as next spring. Former Government Conservation Officer David Wingate has proposed turning the former private gardens into a new Botanical Gardens....