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Iconic West End educator Hope Bascome, whose public school career spanned more than four decades, has passed away at the age of 101. “She lived long, she lived well, and she touched many lives in school and in church,” nephew Glenn Bascome told The R...

Former advertising and marketing manager for The Royal Gazette Gary Ritchie has passed away at the age of 77. Mr Ritchie entered the newspaper industry in Canada after serving three years in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He came to Bermuda in 1968 to...

William (Bill) Tucker, who repeatedly represented Bermuda in international bridge competitions, has died at the age of 80. Mr Tucker was a fixture on the Bermuda bridge scene, winning several competitions here and overseas. Frequent teammate Alan Dou...

The obituary of a black Bermudian who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War has been published in a national UK newspaper. Last week The Royal Gazette reported the death of Leading Aircraftsman Philip Lamb, who died in hospital la...

A Royal Navy enthusiast who donated thousands of photographs and two model ships to the Bermuda’s National Museum has died. Originally from the UK, Kenneth Kelly served with the Royal Navy following the end of the Second World War. After completing h...

Friends and family are mourning the death of former Bermuda resident and Olympian Anthony Harper. Born in Malaysia to British parents in 1938, Mr Harper joined the Bermuda Police Service in 1960 but would later turn to teaching — first serving as a P...

Tributes poured in yesterday for the late Captain Kenneth Gilbert Ross Hallam who is due to be laid to rest later today. The retired Royal Naval Officer, who was also a long-serving former Director of Marine and Ports, died on Wednesday, March 20, ju...

Distinguished pilot warden and harbourmaster Edward Welch was yesterday laid to rest at sea. Deputy pilot Warden Mario Thompson recalled him as a lifelong native of St George’s and a formal and taciturn man who mentored countless young men in the tra...

It was anticipated there might be a big turnout for the funeral this week of Edwin Collington (Collie) Perinchief, JP. However it proved to be massive, as family, friends and colleagues near and far Island-wide, and from abroad packed St. James Paris...

Rod MacKenzie, one of Bermuda’s most popular pub singers in the 1970s, has died in Florida at the age of 61. A regular performer at Bermuda Folk Club, the Englishman might be best remembered for his nightly appearances at the Robin Hood where he buil...

Tributes have been paid to former St George’s MP Anita Smith, who died on Friday at the age of 95. Mrs Smith fought during the 1970s to ensure black Bermudians participated equally in the Island’s prosperity. Leading the tributes yesterday was anothe...