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Amendments to change Southlands into a park are set to be tabled in the upcoming session of Parliament, according to the Government. While environmentalists have welcomed the long-sought change, they said that a lack of maintenance at the property ov...

For Dana Simmons, walking in her father’s military footsteps more than 70 years later proved a deeply moving experience. Lieutenant Donald Wight Giddings was stationed in Bermuda between 1943 and 1944 to train soldiers bound for the Second World War ...

Access to Southlands has been restricted to walkers only in a bid to tackle illegal dumping. The two entrance gates to the beauty spot on South Road have been locked to prevent vehicles driving into Southlands and new signs have been erected to deter...

An environmental group has lamented the lack of progress in making Southlands a national park. The Bermuda Environmental and Sustainability Taskforce said it was “disheartened” that there was no mention of Southlands in the Throne Speech last week. ...

A community garden on the Southlands property will be ready this Autumn but work must still be done before the site can be named a national park. While the project was described as a step towards the South Shore property becoming a park, Public Works...

Environmental groups have hit out at “irresponsible” and “disrespectful” partygoers who left piles of broken glass, rusty nails and other trash at Southlands beach on Saturday. Anne Hyde, director of Keep Bermuda Beautiful, has contacted the Bermuda ...

New landslides along Southlands beach have prompted fresh calls for the area to be given full national park protection. The stretch of coastline in Warwick has long been subject to wave and wind erosion prompting parts of the cliff to collapse. In th...

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...

Somerset Bridge, the world’s smallest drawbridge, has been officially designated as an Historic Monument while Southlands, located in a 27-acre parkland area in Warwick is now a Grade Two Listed Building. The move follows a public consultation that ...

The “unique treasure” of the Southlands Estate in Warwick is being readied for cleanups aimed at restoring the overgrown 37-acre site. And the group Friends of Southlands is holding its first fundraiser this Friday to assist Government in preparing t...

There comes a time when the people have to act directly to bring about necessary change. The raison d’être almost always involves the failure of the formal political process politicians to move decisively on issues people want to see addressed. Direc...