Comments on: Tree Removal: BEST Object, Ministry Apologise https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/ Bermuda's #1 source for 24/7 breaking news, photos & videos Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:25:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 By: Stuart Hayward Addresses Hamilton Rotary Club | Bernews.com https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2579212 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 10:26:02 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2579212 [...] bees and more. The situation involving trees being cut down arising at Ewing Street and behind the old Magistrates Court building were also [...]

]]> By: M F 1 (call sign) https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2539281 Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:20:13 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2539281 This appears to be a contemptuous act, the ype of thing constituency object to with fervence now,it does seem to be sooo blatent my first thought is;-is this a distraction,a magicians tool to draw attention to what else is going on.It also appears to be misdry imposing mizery.This was a beauty that is needed more of in town.An insurance company accross from little venice is doing a good job of making Hamilton beautiful,this is what is needed!This is an imposition of misery…the removing of beauty will not be tolerated…you suck tree killer!

]]> By: Rhonda https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2533129 Wed, 27 Aug 2014 00:25:24 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2533129 Or the OBA…. had to lie to us again… overtime offered, but workers didn’t want to work… changing gp plates for safety reasons…Lamb Foggo. .. nothing to do with me…..is this a pattern…

]]> By: Cloud https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532466 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 16:14:30 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532466 @watchman that’s so smart! Bermuda is starting to require innovation, sustainability, compassion, and most of all *co-operation*, which many people lack IMO.

]]> By: Rhonnie aka Blue Familiar https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532448 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:54:44 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532448 Okay, saying you’re ‘pruning’ when you’re cutting down is deceptive, but from the first look at one of the photos it looked like they had good reason to remove it.

No point keeping a diseased or damaged tree. It can easily be replaced by another. Perhaps in a better location.

]]> By: Raymond Ray https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532379 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:40:49 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532379 Just a wee bit curious in knowing just how it’s possible for the Ministry to order the falling of this tree without the Corp. of Hamilton having known anything about it?

]]> By: Bored by ignorance https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532367 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:31:34 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532367 Our destruction of our environment is in effect reducing our chances of survival. When the world is struggling to find food or oxygen levels vastly reduced we will find that whatever our reasons for destroying our environment it will seem unjustifiable. We are a selfish species. Our intelligence and ability to advance modern society being our own worse enemy

]]> By: Raymond Ray https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532346 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:19:45 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532346 I mentioned how I feel about the members of C. o. H. and I stick to it…regardless of who is responsible for the falling of the tree, it should not have happened period :-(

]]> By: Just a matter of time https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532316 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:02:46 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532316 @JH. The OBA DOES have paid bloggers. Stephen DaCosta from the Jetgate scandal admitted to that in his article. That was part of the $350K spent.

]]> By: JH https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532249 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:54:00 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532249 Concerned: Unlike the PLP, the OBA doesn’t need paid bloggers.

Although this is upsetting, I notice that the OBA has apologized over this screw up.

That’s something PLP never did.

]]> By: watchman https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532231 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:40:46 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532231 I’m with Ananda Hill why not plant fruit trees in town. We can let the homeless and less fortunate have the fruit for free. Or, government can sell the fruit at low cost to pay for upkeep. One step closer to self sustainability.

]]> By: Just a matter of time https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532218 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:29:48 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532218 What does this have to do with the COH or PLP?? This was purely action done by the Ministry of Public Works! Read the facts first people.

]]> By: DUHHHH https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532136 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 11:20:18 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532136 Bunch of idiot morons. Trees take hundred years to grow. They contribute to our oxygen to LET US LIVE.

yeah sure, let’s cut them all down! nothing bad will happen!!!!!!!!!!! they will just maaaagically grow back right?

PLP cut down acres and acres of trees and protected areas in its reign.
duuuuuuh

duuhhhh
duhhhhh

]]> By: Back T. School https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2532077 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 10:35:33 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2532077 Okay, I am awake now. If we are unable to share correct information about trees……. Let us pray.

]]> By: Delaey https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531999 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:41:18 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531999 Oh, and lots of native trees attract native birds. Imagine having red birds and blue birds on the Hill.

]]> By: Delaey https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531989 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:37:25 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531989 But it’s a casurina you byes. Therefore temporary measure – put in a fast growing tree in a place where there should be a tree, until you are ready to replace it with a permanent solution like a cedar, an olive wood or some other slow growing native or until the temoprary solution becomes a problem now or it is forseen that it soon will do by being too big, potentially dangerous to life/property in a hurricane, so you cut it now when control is easier, it’s cheaper and less dangerous.

Please save your fights for the real important things of which there are many needing your full attention. This particular tree, which appears to me to be located within the grounds of the House of Assemble, and is small beer: virtually no bees and hardly any birds will suffer its loss. We on the other hand may now hope to see in years to come, a thriving native there.

OK, watch this spot. But there are other equally deserving spots needing thought, attention, action…

]]> By: Concerned Citizen https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531434 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:45:56 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531434 OBA paid bloggers in full effect…..and not the bright ones either! Smh! Pamplin is caught out either via lying again OR just gross incompetence, yet all you cheaply paid bloggers blame the COH!???? Haha “some folk do not know how to read”……

]]> By: #bermylivin https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531398 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:21:01 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531398  Yes, I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please. But I’m also in charge of the brown Bar-ba-loots, who played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suits and happily lived eating truffula fruits. Now, thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground, there’s not enough truffula fruit to go ’round!

]]> By: Chris Famous https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531340 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 01:39:50 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531340 If this was COH then the Minister would not be involved…

Facts people
Facts

]]> By: Maximus https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531288 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:54:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531288 Can somebody please clarify. The Poinciana tree in this photo HAS NO COH INVOLVEMENT WHATSOEVER. It’s quite easy to bash the COH presently, but the fact is, the Magistrates Court tree is not the responsibility of the COH.

]]> By: Confused https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531253 Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:30:50 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531253 The Ministry of Works cut down the tree. The minister apologizes and the haters blame the CoH. Help me understand that. The CoH is not even mentioned in the story.

]]> By: Coffee https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531207 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:51:04 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531207 If I’m living freely in your everyday thoughts than I’ll always be one up on you ! So I thank you for allowing me that priceless space …. Blessings .

]]> By: Loren https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531205 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:50:47 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531205 A small peek into the high level quality communications that exist within the government.

]]> By: Ananda Hill https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531194 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:44:01 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531194 If a replacement tree will be re-planted, its not that big of a deal people. Trees come and go, it is sad but true. We should make sure that we do our part by planting trees ourselves.

Also it would make more sense if we were to get into the habit of planting useful trees and vegetation within the city… rather than random useless ones… just a thought.

]]> By: ABC https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531192 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:42:12 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531192 coh been doin a pack for years

like de songs goes knock down paradise 2 built parkin lots

someone needs to take over coh period tired of them

]]> By: Jon https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531191 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:40:20 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531191 Wut

]]> By: LX https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531187 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:37:59 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531187 Since they cut this tree down, i just hope they plant another in the same area.

]]> By: We Are Not Amused! https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531174 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:27:09 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531174 when I wash out the dregs from my coffee pot I always thinks of you getting flushed down the drain!

]]> By: Coffee https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531097 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 22:16:32 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531097 By the cutting down an removing that tree , the COH has symbolically got rid of the OBA from its everyday city business .

]]> By: Rasheed https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531069 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:52:40 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531069 Get rid of that PLP/COH ASAP,before they do more damage.

]]> By: Anon https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531046 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:37:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531046 Sorry but I completely disagree with you. Bermuda is lucky to have a group like BEST to look out after the enviromnment so there will be something left for the next generation

]]> By: micro https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531019 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:16:29 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531019 Would be nice if some of that concern for safety could be focused on the poor dangerous state of the city’s roads.

]]> By: We Are Not Amused! https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2531000 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:04:21 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2531000 I’d like to prune the CoH!

(( for prune read cut down. ))

]]> By: swing voter https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530990 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:57:35 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530990 The more trees we destroy, the less rainfall we enjoy. Its a scientific fact. what a waste of a beautiful specimen.

]]> By: Cardine Alice https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530976 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:45:52 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530976 Sad. Our landlord has a no tree policy and indescrimanently has his “landscapers” prune (hack limbs off) trees and cut down any trees. They never recover. He has reduced beautiful lush grounds to bare lawn with a concrete property. Thus removing what make Bermuda beautiful, and reducing it to low maintenance scorched suburbia.

My house back home has listed trees and a listed wisteria. Priceless.

]]> By: Somerset https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530955 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:32:11 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530955 It’s not Best’s tree nor is it on Best’s property. If there was a good enough reason for it to go, so be it. Some people get bent out of shape by a decision made about a tree, when it has nothing to do with them. I’m pretty sure it will be replaced with a tree off a more suitable species for that location.

]]> By: think https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530949 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:27:08 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530949 Best b**** for the sake of it at most times. By the looks of the picture that tree looks like its pushing out the well. God forbid someone for being proactive now before the wall collapse and possible injure or kills someone.

]]> By: Terry https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530871 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:41:25 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530871 This is completely asinine.

Parking?

Park somewhere else.

I thought this was Government property. Set me straight.

Corporation may maintain it but this is sad.

Outerbridge needs to be outta there along with a few others.

Next he will have police guards at the Supreme Court replaced with Manuel and Shkir with shovels…………………..

I need a rum.

]]> By: Unbelievable https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530846 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:17:42 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530846 I’m looking forward to hearing why that tree was cut down.

]]> By: Family Man https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530843 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:16:03 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530843 We had to deceive you? Again?

]]> By: Raymond Ray https://bernews.com/2014/08/best-raise-objections-to-tree-removal-in-city/#comment-2530837 Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:10:27 +0000 http://bernews.com/?p=314165#comment-2530837 I imagine the tree has been cut down to make some more room for vehicles to be eventually parked in that area :-( The Mayor and associates must go a.s.a.p.

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