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A West End funeral home director who cultivated “tact, sensitivity and a deep appreciation for what people are going through” was an accomplished sailor who served one term as an MP. Colin Pearman threw his hat in the ring in 1985 as a United Bermud...

A former Progressive Labour Party senator was remembered as “the definition of the saying that if you want to get something done, give it to a busy man”. Raymond Tannock, a businessman whose public service ranged from the Kiwanis Club to chairman of ...

An American-born reinsurance mogul in Bermuda was a maverick who left a teaching career for an emerging business field that helped put the island on the map for international business. Steven Gluckstern and his friend Michael Palm revolutionised the ...

Olga Scott, who championed a charity for at-risk young women, was a “kind and compassionate woman” who “exemplified the very essence of public service”, according to David Burt, the Premier. Mr Burt paid tribute at the weekend to Mrs Scott, the wife ...

A former common councillor for the City of Hamilton was also a musician, activist and “unsung hero” who gave of his time to help seniors. John Holdipp III became one of nine Hamilton councillors in November 2013, under the “Team Hamilton” administrat...

A charitable driving force who preferred working behind the scenes was the inspiration behind a major Warwick Academy fundraiser that ran more than 50 years. Pamela Kempe, who came to Bermuda from the United States in 1949 to open a new nursery schoo...

A former executive director of the Bermuda Chamber of Commerce was among the founders and later the manager of a hugely popular crafts centre at the West End. Audrey Brackstone came from Bartlett, a small town in the White Mountains of New Hampshire,...

An industrious West End plumber and pillar of the Somerset community trained dozens in the trade, leaving an enduring mark on businesses and residences across the island. Junius Burrows, known to all as JB, ran a landmark plumbing business on the Hog...

Baroness Sharples, the widow of assassinated Bermuda Governor Sir Richard Sharples who sat in the House of Lords for the Conservative party, has died at 99. A lengthy tribute in The Telegraph told of a colonial governor’s life shattered on the night ...

A longstanding hospitality worker who became a hotel chef at a time when few women could be found in the trade was also a union and Progressive Labour Party stalwart. A proud lifelong Somerset resident, Viola “Pinky” Rogers embarked on hotel work in ...