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Stanley Lowe, Bermuda’s first black Speaker of the House of Assembly, died on Sunday aged 82. The Royal Gazette has reproduced this video that was recorded by CITV to celebrate him reaching the milestone of 40 years as a Progressive Labour Party poli...

A pastor who ministered on the streets, as well as in the hospital and prison system, has died. The Reverend William Holdipp was 75. Mr Holdipp was a prominent member of the New Testament Church of God on Dundonald Street in Hamilton. Crystal Holdipp...

A great among greats who dazzled on the pitch “when football was football” has died. Glenn “Gappa” Wade, a stalwart for three decades with Pembroke Juniors and Dock Hill Rangers from the 1950s, was 80. Wade was a dominant figure, especially alongside...

The Government opened an online condolences book for Stanley Lowe, a former Speaker of the House of Assembly, yesterday. Mr Lowe, the first black Speaker and who served as an MP for 44 years, died on Sunday, aged 82. Mr Lowe was a member of the Parli...

Stanley Lowe, the former Speaker of the House of Assembly, has died. He was 82. Mr Lowe was a Progressive Labour Party MP for Southampton East for 44 years, after being elected as a member of the “Class of ’68” which marked the beginning of the moder...

A veteran Girl Guides leader who became the island’s first black woman postmaster has died. Janice Dill, who also worked for decades with the Salvation Army, was 88. Ms Dill was part of a group of older Girl Guides from the Cedar Hill Land Rangers in...

Richard “Dick” Butterfield, a stalwart of Bermuda’s arts community, has died, aged 90. Mr Butterfield was born in Bermuda on September 7, 1929 and attended Saltus Grammar School as a child. He left the island in 1942 to attend Trinity College Schoo...

David Dagnall, a former deputy headmaster who taught in Bermuda for 19 years and was known for his ebullience in sporting circles, has died in England after a brief illness. He was 73. Born in Appleby, Westmoreland, he came to the island in 1972 to t...

Dear Sir, Ada Nyabongo (1926-2020), who was laid to rest on April 3, was a remarkable woman. While I salute her for earning a doctorate in musicology from New York University, this was only a small part of the woman I called “Aunt Ada”. I lived in h...

A top marathon runner and husband of former Senate president Carol Ann Bassett has died. Roderick Bassett was 68. He was an athlete for more than 20 years until an injury sidelined his athletic career in 2008. Ms Bassett said her husband “loved being...

A Bermudian piano teacher who married Ugandan royalty has died. Ada Nyabongo was just three days short of her 94th birthday when she died on March 26. Born in Bermuda to Harold and Naomi Paynter, but brought up in Brooklyn, New York, Dr Nyabongo earn...

A Caribbean Regiment veteran of the Second World War who served in Italy and Egypt has died. Leonard Doars, whose 97th birthday would have been on Friday, died last Tuesday. Mr Doars, the second oldest of five children, came from a musical family; hi...