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Robin Blackburne, a world-renowned wine connoisseur, inventor and tennis lover, has died at age 86. Mr Blackburne’s name was synonymous with wine in Bermuda, after he came to the island in 1962 to lead Bristol Cellars, a drinks firm. He arrived in Be...

Cecil G. Smith, a lifelong musician whose name became synonymous with the organ at St Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, has died at 85. On Sunday he was given a send-off by the congregation of the Hamilton church, where he had also led the cho...

Former parliamentarian William Milner Cox, a member of the vaunted “Class of ’68”, has died. He was 91. Mr Cox was among a group of MPs who won seats in the 1968 election and were to make their mark on the Bermudian political landscape in the followi...

David Burt, the Premier, last night mourned the death of Owen Arthur, a former Prime Minister of Barbados. Mr Arthur died on Monday at the age of 70. Mr Burt described Mr Arthur, who led the Caribbean nation between 1994 and 2008, as a “leader of gre...

The Premier has said that the legacies of two American civil rights pioneers were “secured” as he marked their deaths. David Burt paid tribute to John Lewis, a Georgia congressman, and the Reverend C.T. Vivian, who was a Baptist minister and field ge...

The East End lost a distinguished senior last month after charity volunteer Ada Foggo died, aged 91. Kenneth Bascome, a former MP and former Mayor of St George, said his mother had been looked upon with pride by her community as “the hat lady”. He sa...

A tribute to the late stage and screen star Earl Cameron will be shown on the Government’s TV channel this week. The channel started to air three programmes every day from yesterday, which will be repeated until Sunday, to honour Mr Cameron, one of t...

A former United States Consul-General to Bermuda who played a big role in a financial turning point in the island’s history was remembered this week as a valuable friend. Sir John Swan, the island’s longest-serving premier, said that Max Friedersdorf...

An American business head who spent the early 1980s in Bermuda has died, aged 87. Clayton Cormier, originally from Bay City, Michigan, died on June 9 in Jupiter, Florida, after a brief illness. Mr Cormier came to the island in 1979 as the president a...

A businessman, hospitality leader and a former MP for the West End who led the redevelopment of Dockyard as a major tourist destination has died. J.C. “Kit” Astwood, who passed on May 28, was 87. Mr Astwood, a businessman and consultant who was a dir...

J.C. “Kit” Astwood was an indomitable force in local politics and business for at least a half-century in Bermuda. From the late 1950s and into the 21st century, nothing happened in the political sphere or business that Kit did not have some involve...

A former Somerset Trojans star goalkeeper and a “role model” Chief Officer in the prison service has died. Reginald Gomes played a major part in the department’s community work in which inmates worked on schools, repaired club buildings, and tidied p...