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A new Progressive Labour Party senator paid tribute in the Upper House to former PLP MP Walter King as well as sports coach Myron Bean. The Reverend Emily Gail Dill gave condolences to the family of Mr King, who served in the House of Assembly from 1...

The local cricket community is mourning the loss of former Bailey’s Bay player and Bermuda coach with the recent passing of George Rock at the age of 85. Rock, who hailed from Barbados, came to Bermuda in the 1970s and had stints as Bermuda coach at...

A St George’s ship’s pilot and shipwright risked his life as a small-boat captain during the Second World War. Edric Pearman, who was 104, and his late wife, Joyce, who died in 2016 after almost 75 years of marriage, were known as the island’s longes...

An engineer who headed a Bermuda telecommunications firm led turn of the century work to safeguard the island against the computer flaw dubbed the millennium bug. Gregory Swan, a top Belco engineer who later headed the Government’s telecommunications...

A former health and safety official who monitored construction sites was also a keen sportsman and helped found one of Bermuda’s best known rugby clubs. Harry Powell helped kick off Renegades Rugby Football Club in 1958, according to his friend John ...

A British family has appealed for help to trace information about an ancestor who died in a diving accident in Bermuda more than a century ago. Phillip Hambling added that relatives also hoped to solve the mystery of what happened to John Hambling’s ...

A writer and actor who championed film and theatre in Bermuda was remembered for her sparkling style and “a voice made for the stage”. Susanne Notman, a theatre devotee who liked to call top performances “champagne bubbles onstage”, became a driving ...

A veteran St George’s firefighter nicknamed “Captain Smokes” also ran a popular East End hardware store and sailed several times in the Newport Bermuda Race. His family said Robert Oatley, who died earlier this month, was “a St George’s man through a...

A veteran bus driver with a love of hospitality lived a life of service to others, his daughter has said. Sonia Howes said Sidney Simmons, who died earlier this month, “just loved being around people”. Mr Simmons volunteered for more than a decade fo...

January is meant to be a month of hope. A month to set us on the path to redemption and renewal after the travails and challenges of the 12 months gone by. A month of new year’s resolutions. But this has been a cussed two or three years, and instea...

No doubt Andrew Bascome saw a lot of himself in his nephew Osagi Bascome as the youngster developed into an outstanding young midfielder. Andrew was in that category too, as one of the best midfielders this island has ever produced, as he made headli...

Lieutenant-Colonel Eddie Lamb gave those in attendance at Osagi Bascome’s funeral plenty to think about when he was asked to give a tribute at Sunday’s memorial service for the former St George’s and Bermuda footballer. Lamb, a cousin of the young f...