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Dear Sir, A giant of a man who has left an awesome legacy and an indelible imprint on the wellbeing of Bermuda. Well known and hugely respected, he projected Bermuda’s image to our international partners for many years and successfully assisted in en...

Neil Inchcup Sr, a self-made businessman who pioneered gambling in Bermuda, has died at the age of 82. Mr Inchcup took the island by storm in 1994 with Freeport Bingo, which was broadcast on TV but ran afoul of the law. Other ventures included longli...

Bernard Fox, a “free-spirited warrior of St David’s” who honoured his Pequot tribe heritage with the name Chief Running Water, has died at the age of 86. His sister, Ronnie Chameau, said her brother was “liked by all” in St David’s, where he repaired...

C.V. “Jim” Woolridge, one of the leading figures of the former United Bermuda Party and a cricket commentator famed as the “Voice of Summer”, died yesterday at the age of 92. The long-serving former minister of tourism, who was MP for Smith’s South, ...

C.V. “Jim” Woolridge was most famous for his many years as tourism minister. A man of strong views, he said in his memoirs, The House that Jack Built, that he was “hired, fired, rehired, refired and then rehired again” from the ministry for standing ...

CV “Jim” Woolridge was born in 1926 in Flatts as one of ten children. He wrote in his memoirs that, appropriately given his later role as cricket’s Voice of Summer, that he “practically grew up on Flatts cricket field”. Cricket was a lifelong passion...

Former premiers have paid tribute to two-times presidential candidate John McCain, who died on Saturday at the age of 81. Alex Scott met Mr McCain in 2006, when former United States Consul General Gregory Slayton led a delegation from Bermuda to Was...

Marion De Jean, a teacher and activist, “helped make Bermuda a better place”, community activist Glenn Fubler said yesterday. Mr Fubler, of community group Imagine Bermuda, said Ms deJean, who died last month at the age of 95, was, along with her lat...

Marion Ida Seager De Jean (née Trott) was born on April 18, 1923, on Sound View Road, Sandys. She was the second child of parents Francis Edmund “Frank” Trott and Nellie Beryl Stowe Simons. Marion was a loving mother and educator. Her passion about e...

V.S. Naipaul, our phenomenal West Indian son, has resigned leaving behind a substantial space in our society, which we can only hope would one day be filled again. The passages detailing his passing have been marked with sadness on all sides of the d...

Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul, who died on Saturday, aged 85, was “a giant”, the island’s West Indian Association has said. Naipaul, whose books such as Miguel Street and A House for Mr Biswas are required reading in his homelan...

Barrett Lightbourn, an engineer and environmentalist who pioneered solar power and energy conservation in Bermuda, has died. He was 66. Friends and colleagues said Mr Lightbourn was a modest visionary who brought renewable power to the island decades...