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A former head teacher who also led the Bermuda Association of School Principals was a skilled mediator, colleagues said yesterday.
Livingston Tuzo’s teaching career spanned 34 years and he worked at the Gilbert Institute in Paget and Victor Scott Pri...
DATE: Aug 10, 2021
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A long-serving principal at Mount Saint Agnes Academy and one of the island’s last Sisters of Charity has died at 81 after devoting 36 years to the school.
Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Judith Marie Rollo came to Bermuda in 1968 as a nun on ...
DATE: Aug 02, 2021
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A nurse who fought for change when racial segregation frustrated the careers of Black Bermudian medical professionals has been warmly recalled by MPs and senators.
The family of Sandra Allen said she stood as a mentor to generations of nurses.
Her ob...
DATE: Jul 28, 2021
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A world-renowned sailor, builder of boats and frequent caller on Bermuda was recalled by friends for his motto in life: “Never be afraid to be terrified.”
Paul Erling Johnson, famed for crossing the Atlantic alone in a sailboat at 16, died last month...
DATE: Jul 20, 2021
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An innovative former head of diagnostic imaging at Bermuda’s hospital has been recalled by colleagues as meticulous and pioneering in a developing field of medicine.
Adrian “George” Ringer was a “trailblazer” for diagnostic imaging at King Edward VII...
DATE: Jul 07, 2021
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A calypso artist from an era when the upbeat Trinidadian music was the soundtrack of Bermuda tourism has died.
Reuben McCoy was 83.
Mr McCoy – nicknamed Lord Flea – was a popular calypso singer whose recordings included albums such as Bermuda Calling...
DATE: Jun 14, 2021
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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...
DATE: Jun 09, 2021
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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...
DATE: May 27, 2021
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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...
DATE: May 02, 2021
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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...
DATE: Apr 28, 2021
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