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The organiser of the Shelly Bay Raft Up at the weekend has said he will look at better trash disposal and a clean-up team for water-based parties for future events. Jason Sukdeo, who organised several events over the National Heroes Weekend, was spe...

A water safety organisation board has not met for almost a year, an insider said yesterday. A source said the Bermuda Water Safety Council was in limbo as a result. The source, who asked not to be named, added: “The fact is that there is no presenc...

Tobacco Bay is to reopen to swimmers after levels of seawater bacteria dropped to normal. The Ministry of Health said tests over the weekend had shown bacteria levels were within acceptable limits, but that Environmental Health scientists would conti...

The annual Devil’s Isle Paddle Board Challenge is coming back to Bermuda with the aim of helping highlight plastic pollution in the ocean. In a test of endurance, participants will paddleboard 40 miles around the island, launching from Snorkel Park....

Thousands of gallons of raw sewage from St George is still being dumped out at sea every day with no fixed timeline for improvements, The Royal Gazette can reveal. The Ministry of the Environment told this newspaper, in response to questions, that ab...

Independent tests carried out on water samples from Grape Bay and Hungry Bay at the weekend showed that both beaches were safe for recreational use. The Royal Gazette commissioned Shervon De Leon, of Bermuda Environmental Laboratories, to collect the...

Initial improvements at Tynes Bay to help tackle the problem of “sewage balls” are expected to be up and running by mid-October. According to a Bermuda Government spokeswoman, the Flo-Septage receiving station and screening system will improve the q...

“Sewage balls” plaguing South Shore beaches must be tackled “completely” to protect the island’s most important tourism asset, according to the Bermuda Tourism Authority. Greenrock and the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce echoed the cal...

More than 2,000 bottles of water have been donated to residents of Cedar Park by four community organisations. Fraternities Alpha Phi Alpha and Kappa Alpha Psi, and sororities Alpha Kappa Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta teamed up yesterday to assist fam...

Researchers have identified how a specific strain of salmonella is getting into Bermuda’s drinking water system, prompting environmental health officials to reiterate advice on how to avoid getting ill. The research team, led by doctoral student Sher...

A team of Danish scientists have painted a worrying picture of the scale of plastic pollution in and around Bermuda. The crew of the Christianshavn visited the Island as part of a major global project to study levels of plastic pollution in the Atlan...

Race for Water — an offshore trimaran on a 300-day odyssey around the world to study plastics in the ocean — arrived in Bermuda yesterday at the conclusion of a turbulent trip, according to their online log and at the end of the second leg of their j...