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A former health and safety official who monitored construction sites was also a keen sportsman and helped found one of Bermuda’s best known rugby clubs. Harry Powell helped kick off Renegades Rugby Football Club in 1958, according to his friend John ...

A writer and actor who championed film and theatre in Bermuda was remembered for her sparkling style and “a voice made for the stage”. Susanne Notman, a theatre devotee who liked to call top performances “champagne bubbles onstage”, became a driving ...

A veteran St George’s firefighter nicknamed “Captain Smokes” also ran a popular East End hardware store and sailed several times in the Newport Bermuda Race. His family said Robert Oatley, who died earlier this month, was “a St George’s man through a...

A veteran bus driver with a love of hospitality lived a life of service to others, his daughter has said. Sonia Howes said Sidney Simmons, who died earlier this month, “just loved being around people”. Mr Simmons volunteered for more than a decade fo...

Gregory Seymour, a singer who led the popular rhythm and blues group Burning Ice, was one of its few surviving members. The band, which hit its heyday in the 1970s, also enjoyed popularity overseas. Music historian Dale Butler’s book Music on the Roc...

A former photographer for the Bermuda News Bureau who left the island for a career in TV commercials and photography in Hollywood was an ambassador for the island, his family have said. Leonard Mocklow may have lived in the US but proudly sported the...

A champion for preventive medicine led the fight against diabetes in Bermuda – one of the island’s most rampant chronic diseases. Femi Bada was also a former chairman of the Bermuda Diabetes Association. Dr Bada advocated the use of alternative techn...

A veteran of the elite Royal Marine Commandos was also a prominent businessman at a well-known china, crystal and antiques shop. Major Peter Darling, who served nearly 30 years in the Marines, ran Bluck’s on Front Street with his brother, Lieutenant-...

Church leaders and human rights activists yesterday paid tribute to South African churchman Desmond Tutu, a Nobel peace prize-winning anti-apartheid activist. The retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town died last Sunday in a nursing home in the cit...

A former general manager of the Bermuda Telephone Company helped to rewire the island’s phone system after he arrived in 1963. Daniel Mannus, who headed BTC from 1986 until 1991, was also a longstanding member of Hamilton Rotary Club and was presiden...