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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...

A lifelong farmer from the West End who carried on a proud family tradition of living off the land has died at 85. Richard Bascome was a dairy farmer who tended Westover Farm in Sandys. He recalled delivering milk as a child with his father, also Ric...

A founding member and former president of the Bermuda Zoological Society who steered the finances of the Aquarium has died at 92. An avid golfer, Eric Clee also served as president of Hamilton Rotary Club in the 1990s, as well as the Probus Club, whi...

A chef, West End restaurant owner and pillar of the Somerset community has died at 58. Donald Hassell, proprietor of the Somerset Country Squire at Mangrove Bay, was a “brilliant, kind, generous and friendly man who exemplified everything that hospit...

A veteran ZBM cameraman and news gatherer has died. Arnold Landy II was 62. Mr Landy was also known for his work as a carpenter and was a keen fisherman. Tari Trott, a ZBM news anchor, reported on Thursday night that he and his colleagues were “dev...

A psychological counsellor who fought a lifelong battle with cancer has died. Leslie Ann White was 48. She also ran a successful bookstore, the Literate Lizard, with her daughter Jordyn, 17, in the city of Sedona, Arizona. Ms White, also an author, ...