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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...

An American executive who played a prominent role in the heyday of Bermuda’s reinsurance industry has died. David Sinnott, who lived in Bermuda from 1993 to 2011, was 58. Mr Sinnott worked at reinsurers Tempest Reinsurance, PartnerRe, General Re and ...

“I have always found comfort in the confines of a book or manuscript,” Sonny Mehta, the editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf, said in 2018 as he accepted the Centre for Fiction’s Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Lifetime Achievement. “Reading is how I spen...

A dietitian who helped found a charity dedicated to helping others come to terms with their own mortality has died after a long battle with cancer. Jasen Moniz was 65. Ms Moniz, a former government nutritionist, was the driving force behind the chari...

On November 23, St James Church in Somerset was filled for the Celebration of the Life of the late Veronica Ross. The congregation heard aspects of how this loving mother, iconic educator and community exemplar was not only concerned about some, but ...

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In the biblical times, a man’s worth was measured by the number of ...

One of the island’s top anglers, as well as a sportsman and veteran teacher has died. Tom Smith, who was 90, was dedicated to rugby, swimming, golf and fishing. Mr Smith helped found the annual Mid-Ocean News Wahoo Tournament in 1967, as well as the ...

A leading light in the foundation of the Progressive Labour Party has died. Edith Richardson, 97, was the widow of Hugh Richardson, a former President of the Senate and the first chairman of the PLP. The Richardson’s home on Serpentine Road in Pembro...

Tim Hodgson, who passed away yesterday, was a brilliant writer and journalist. Elsewhere in this newspaper, there will be a more exact record of his career, but a résumé does not do justice to Tim or his unique approach to life. I was fortunate to g...

Tim Hodgson, a former Editor of the Mid-Ocean News and Editorial Consultant for The Royal Gazette, has died. He was 57. Colleagues and friends said Mr Hodgson, who started his career in journalism aged just 15, was an unparalleled reporter whose outp...

Tributes were paid last night to the late Jack Lightbourn with an informal ceremony at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute. The shell collector, diver and conservationist donated a major part of his world-renowned collection to the BUEI, whe...