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A veteran soldier and photographer whose images record the history of the Royal Bermuda Regiment has died. Sergeant Kenneth Byron was 64. Lieutenant-Colonel Ben Beasley, the RBR’s Commanding Officer, said that even though Sgt Byron spent much of his...

An advocate for the arts and a “driving force” in the founding of the Bermuda Mental Health Foundation has died aged 85. Stanley Chetkowski also helped launch the Bermuda Film Festival in 1997, and served as treasurer of the Bermuda Festival of the P...

Tributes were paid today to one of the island’s top pianists who died last month. Norma Brown-Raynor, 92, was “a highly sought after pianist who added key rhythms to the Aldano Sextette Band”, according to Dale Butler, a music historian and former go...

The Reverend Malcolm Eve 1934-2021 A former presiding elder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Bermuda and pastor of Bethel AME Church in Shelly Bay has died. The Reverend Malcolm Eve was 86. Mr Eve was a champion of traditional values...

Wil Weber: 1941-2021 An engineer whose innovations transformed the island’s soft drinks industry has died. Wil Weber was 78. Mr Weber, who was born in Chicago, had a 55-year career in a family industry – his great-grandfather, Phillip Weber, mov...

A pastor, women’s advocate and former United Bermuda Party Cabinet minister and senator has died at 75. Yvette Swan, who worked as an optometrist at the Bermuda Optical Company, was a champion for the disadvantaged, according to Cole Simons, the Lead...

Clarence “Tootsie” Bean 1930-2021 A top Bermudian jazz drummer, an international performer who was integral to the island’s music heydays, has died at 90. Clarence “Tootsie” Bean was revered among Bermuda’s musicians, many of whom he mentored. H...

Sally Gibbons 1940-2021 An artist and teacher whose love of flowers beautified Holy Trinity Church in Hamilton Parish has died at 80. Sally Gibbons, widow of the former government minister Leonard Gibbons, was also head of the secondary departme...

A former Commanding Officer of the Royal Bermuda Regiment, Government spokesman and journalist including editor of the Mid-Ocean News, has died at 79. Lieutenant-Colonel Gavin Shorto was recalled for a level headed demeanour that prevailed during cha...

A dogged independent electoral candidate, singer and activist hailed as a “soldier for the common man” has died at 75. David W. Burch was honoured in 2015 by Atlantic Publishing House run by former minister Dale Butler, who called him “a strong-wille...