Save The Gardens: Take Action!

You can put your pens down folks! The Government has announced that it will NOT be building the new hospital on the Botanical Gardens.

Below is a (new) draft letter to Premier Ewart Brown that you may copy and paste. It is best if you modify it with your own thoughts but if you don't have the time you can simply add your details at the bottom and send it off.

Dear Premier,

I support the need for a new Acute Care Hospital in Bermuda. However, I object to any development whatsoever in the Botanical Gardens. They are a Bermudian national icon in addition to being a beautiful, protected national park, a major tourist attraction and a superb educational and scientific resource. All parks are incredibly valuable to society but the Botanical Gardens are extra special and are widely used by the entire community. We cannot afford to lose them!

I am aware that there will be difficulties rebuilding on the existing hospital site but these issues will be short term whereas the effects of destroying the heart of the Botanical Gardens will be permanent.

Please preserve the Botanical Gardens intact for future generations.

Yours Sincerely
Name
Parish/ Town
Country

Click on the link below to find contact information for all the relevant people (including the new Ministers) that your letter should be addressed and copied to.

Letters and faxes are usually preferable to emails for letter writing campaigns. However, e.mails don't require dead trees so - it's up to you. Below is all the contact information you need to send your letter.

Address your letter/fax or e.mail to:

Premier Ewart Brown
The Hon. Dr. Ewart Brown, Justice of the Peace (JP), Member of Parliament (MP).
The Cabinet Building, 105 Front Street, Hamilton HM 12, Bermuda.

Telephone (441) 292-5501
Fax (441) 292-8397

E.mail: ebrown@gov.bm

Copy your letter/fax or e.mail to:

Paula Cox (Minister of Finance)
Government Administration Building
30 Parliament Street
Hamilton HM12
Bermuda

Telephone: (441) 295 5151 Ext. 1495
Fax: (441) 295 5727

E.mail: pcox@gov.bm

Nelson Bascome (Minister of Health)
Government Administration Building
30 Parliament Street
Hamilton HM12
Bermuda

Telephone: (441) 278 4900 Ext. 4901
Fax: (441) 292 2622

E.mail: nbascome@gov.bm

Neletha Butterfield (Minister of Environment)
Government Administration Building
30 Parliament Street
Hamilton HM12
Bermuda

Telephone: (441) 297 7590
Fax: (441) 292 2349

E.mail: nbutterfield@gov.bm

Sustainable Development Unit
Central Policy Unit,
Cabinet Office,
105 Front Street,
Hamilton HM 12

Telephone: (441) 298 7193
Fax: (441) 296 0555

E.mail: chartingourcourse@gov.bm

Sustainable Development Round Table
c/o The Sustainable Development Unit,
Central Policy Unit,
Cabinet Office,
105 Front Street,
Hamilton HM 12

Telephone: (441) 298 7193
Fax: (441) 296 0555
E.mail: sdrt@logic.bm

Bermuda Hospitals Board
P.O. Box HM 1023
Hamilton HM DX
Bermuda

Telephone: (441) 239-2182
Fax: (441) 239-2182

E.mail (preferable form of communication for the BHB): newsite@bermudahospitals.bm

Please copy e.mails to so that we can keep a record of how many are sent. Thanks!

Please also copy your hand written letters to this address:

Save The Gardens
Garden Cottage
Oleander Hill
Smiths
FL08

Comments

As a Bermudian I feel we have lost alot of our heritage in Bermuda. The Botanical Gardens has allways represented that one untouched place that I can go and feel like I am at home with my land, that peaceful retreat away from the building explosion I have seen since I was a little girl. To loose the Gardens for me is like my country has finally sold its soul. It would break my heart.

Posted by: Mary-Beth Sherwin | October 10, 2006 09:25 AM

It would be a shame for ANY of Bermuda's beautiful sites to be lost. It's a small microcosim that seems irreplaceable. Once its gone its hard to bring something back and it will be missed.

Posted by: lf | October 10, 2006 10:23 AM

Dear Premier Alex Scott,

As a Bermudian I cherish the lush gardens that border the hospital. The Botanical Gardens are a respite for families who are dealing with illness or loss. They provide needed habitat to birds and other wildlife. Please do not let hospital building needs to compromise this national heritage.

Sincerely,

Susanna Kitson Willingham
Nyack, NY
USA

Posted by: Susanna Kitson willingham | October 11, 2006 10:38 PM

save the garden please.because they are our all life,our breath please hear us!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: melike düz | October 29, 2006 05:49 AM

i agree and support the preservation of this very important botanical garden cause maybe one day we can find in this place, solutions for health, who knows, maybe more

Posted by: Jesús Ramón Gamboa | November 2, 2006 10:46 PM

Yours Sincerely
Kiruba Josephin
Nagercoil
India

Posted by: Kiruba Josephin | November 3, 2006 06:33 AM

Posted by: Kiruba Josephin | November 3, 2006 06:35 AM

I have sent e-mails to all the people listed above, and I fully support this work. Keep going guys, you're doing super!! Thank you for organising this noble campaign. I'm with you all 100%!!

Posted by: Katie O' Flynn | November 15, 2006 04:29 PM

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