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An engineer whose designs live on in major developments in Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands has died, aged 86. Miles Outerbridge’s work included key projects in Hamilton, and breaking ground at media mogul Sir Richard Branson’s private island i...

The head of a Massachusetts ship maker who engineered and built Bermuda’s first two fast ferries, and several pilot boats and tugs still working in local waters, has died at 86. George Duclos was chief executive of Gladding-Hearn, a shipbuilding firm...

A Warwick Academy “teaching legend” who has died aged 83 took up the profession only after he missed out on a career in the British Secret Service, his family has revealed. Gabriel Rodriguez was approached by the Secret Service after he started at Ca...

A Bermudian architect, artist and craftsman who left his mark on the island’s skyline has died. Simon Hodgson, whose worked included the Loren resort at Pink Beach in Tucker’s Town, was 54. Friends paid tribute yesterday to Mr Hodgson, who was found ...

A broadcaster whose achievements included the televising of Cup Match games has died. James Talbot, a videographer and former television producer at the Bermuda Broadcasting Company, was 63. Marc Bean, his brother-in-law and a former Progressive Labo...

A photographer and musician whose twin passions earned him the Queen’s Certificate and Badge of Honour in 1996 has died. Gene Ray was 85. Mr Ray captured island life in his lenses as well as visitors for more than 47 years as chief photographer for t...

A war veteran and businessman who supported Warwick Academy students with bursaries and scholarships has died. Walter Sharpe was 95. Mr Sharpe worked behind the scenes throughout the political career of his older brother, Sir John “Jack” Sharpe, who ...

A former broadcaster who became a fixture of the Newport Bermuda and Marion Bermuda races has died. Eugene Rayner was 78. Mr Rayner got involved with the races in 1994 after years as a ham radio enthusiast. He became the races’ director of communicat...

Dear Sir, In 2004, my brother, Paul Marsden, left the UK and the Thames Valley Police to join the Bermuda Police Service. During his time on your beautiful island, he became a regular player for the Bermuda Police rugby team. Rugby was a game that he...

A grande dame of the East End has died less than two weeks before her 104th birthday. Her granddaughter, Renée Ming, the Progressive Labour Party MP for St George’s North, said Ismay Steede, who died on New Year’s Day, was “a true matriarch”. Ms Ming...

A key member and former treasurer and chairman of the Progressive Labour Party has died at 82. Walter Byron was fondly remembered yesterday by Alex Scott, who served as premier for the PLP from 2003 to 2006, as “an unsung hero, the type of individual...

I first met Clinton Smith in the early 1960s as a fellow student at Berkeley Institute, where his mother, Hyacinth Smith, served as school secretary. His team-mates from that 1966 championship PHC Juniors football squad remember how Clint would be i...