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A school counsellor who headed the Bermuda National Parent Teachers Association was a powerful voice for the island’s schools. Marian Askia, a counsellor at East End Primary and St David’s Preschool, was also president of the Amputee Association of B...

A senior adviser at the Bermuda Monetary Authority was a “consummate professional” across many years’ service at the island’s financial services regulator. Marcia Woolridge-Allwood, daughter of the late former tourism minister Jim Woolridge, was “one...

A former general manager at the airport who helped bring flights back to the island during a bleak era for Bermuda’s air travel has died. Jim Howes told The Royal Gazette in 2007 when he retired after five years on the job: “I didn’t just want to dra...

A successful businessman who founded his first company six years after he was kicked out of school was a man who liked “showing the world what was possible”. However, Mike Marshall, whose string of businesses helped build the island over decades, pla...

A former president of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Bermuda used her love of theatre and music to bring “Broadway quality” shows to the island’s audiences. Marjorie Stanton came to theatre with no formal background but had “excellent instincts on...

A champion of Bermuda sailing who kept the Spirit of Bermuda training sloop shipshape and Bristol fashion was yesterday saluted by the charity that operates the vessel. Andy Burnett-Herkes, who died this month, proved integral to the running of the S...

A humanitarian who opened her home to offer meals and friendship to people in need was to be as a mother to the community. The family of Kathleen Ford, who died in June, said she was known as “Ma”. Ms Ford, from a humble childhood in Southampton, the...

A decorated police superintendent who seized the initiative during a march by workers through Hamilton during the General Strike of 1981 was praised for his calm in a crisis. Campbell Simons, who has died aged 78, was also an “outstanding” sportsman ...

A mother who channelled her grief into activism after losing her son to gun violence has died at 70. Marilyn Outerbridge’s 34-year-old son Haile was murdered in a neighbourhood shop alongside his friend Ricco Furbert, 25, in a January 2013 double sho...

An “angel that came to share and teach” was a driven artist, humanitarian and inventor, friends have said. Dennis Joaquin’s creations ranged from puppets to portrait paintings and murals, often featuring nature and undersea scenes, that decorated wal...