Barbadian prosecutor Dorien Taylor, who died suddenly after just two years on the Island, was yesterday immortalised by his Department of Public Prosecutions (DPP) colleagues.

About three dozen friends and colleagues of the former Principal Crown counsel gathered at the DPP's office to witness a dedication of the library in Mr. Taylor's name.

Mr. Taylor died in hospital last year of a suspected aneurism.

His wife Marlese, Acting Senior Magistrate Carlisle Greaves, who is his cousin, a host of defence lawyers and members of the magistracy were on hand for yesterday's lunchtime ceremony.

Prosecutor Anthony Blackman, also from Barbados, recalled a dedicated professional who was fond of quoting Confucius during early morning debates at the DPP's chambers and led by example.

"This is probably a sad occasion for some of us," said Mr. Blackman. "But I would prefer to see it as an occasion where we attempt to recognise the contributions of a great man."

Mr. Taylor's vision for the department by the end of his three year stay, was that the department "would have grown to the point where defence lawyers no longer felt they had an easy job," he said.

Cutting the ribbon to the Taylor Law Library was his widow Marlese.

"Today you have proven Shakespeare wrong by showing that Dorien's good lives after him," she told the gathering. Crown counsel Juan Wolffe, head of the department's library committee, said that Mr. Taylor had proven himself to be a fierce prosecutor.

"One of the things you always said was that you must have your ammunition in order (before entering a courtroom). So we felt it was appropriate to name this library after him."

Mr. Taylor, 56, arrived in Bermuda in October, 2000, to take up the position of Principal Crown counsel.