Government told the Bermuda Hospitals Board the maximum budget for the new hospital would be $500m - effectively ruling out the more expensive option of building on the existing site.
This was one of the snippets of information given to more than 300 people who attended the first round of fresh talks on plans to build the hospital at the Botanical Gardens last night.
The crowd, more than 90 per cent white, want to save the historic gardens. What was being portrayed as a done deal a week or so ago is now up for discussion again after the Premier insisted there should be more consultation.
Reader Comments
Posted: Monday, September 25, 2006
Comment by:
C. Thomson
I dont understand what is the big complaint, We NEED a new hospital! When they build it using a part of the botanical gardens site the old hospital will become a new part of the botanical gardens. I mean we are giving some of it up for a while then in the end we get it back. As far as I am concerned BHB should go ahead. Bermuda will never be a better place if the govenrnemt assised by the public does not allow it to become that!
Posted: Monday, September 25, 2006
Comment by:
Emma Bailie
Don't give up the fight indeed Bermuda. Having lived in Bermuda for 5 years and am now back in the UK, I know that the Botantical Gardens are a key part of Bermudian life. Please, please don't take it away it is a beautiful green space that is peaceful and offers many people somewhere to go and enjoy. Surely the more expensive route is more preferable when the alternative is to distroy some of the limited green space that you have?
Posted: Saturday, September 23, 2006
Comment by:
W. Medinger
To our Bermuda friends:
Don't give up this fight! Once the gardens are gone, the decision can't be taken back!
