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Grumpy Old Man bemoans the use of East Broadway and other parts of the island for cheap marketing

Musician Phil Broikos read about Johnny Barnes on the internet and made him the subject of his song, 03:45 I Love You

Six years after his death, there’s a new song about Johnny Barnes

The iconic Johnny Barnes statue has been donated to the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. The bronze statue was erected in 1998 after a fundraising campaign by the Spirit of Bermuda Foundation, a group set up by entrepreneur Jim Butterfield. Now Mr...

A film starring a Bermudian icon will be screened at the Commonwealth Games. Welcoming Arms, featuring the late Johnny Barnes, will be shown as part of the international sports competition, which started yesterday in Australia. Rosanne Ma, the film...

School-aged children are keeping the welcoming legacy of the late Johnny Barnes alive as part of the #LoveMyBermuda campaign. Once a month, the children, along with a life-size mascot depicting Mr Barnes, wave commuters into Hamilton as the much-love...

Even after his passing, Johnny Barnes’s message of love and happiness is still being felt, according to film-maker Rosanne Ma. Mrs Ma, whose short documentary about Mr Barnes, Welcoming Arms, has screened at several international film festivals, said...

A husband-and-wife team has launched a new business venture that could see a life-size Johnny Barnes mascot welcome visitors to Bermuda. The project, which had the blessing of both Mr Barnes and his wife, Belvina, has been designed to help keep the l...

He started out as Hamilton’s somewhat unconventional, unofficial greeter and ended up becoming Bermuda’s goodwill ambassador to the world. The windmilling waves to early-morning commuters, the beaming smiles and the heartfelt cries of “Good morning!”...

Bermuda has bid farewell to Johnny Barnes with a regal funeral in tribute to “Mr Happy”, an ambassador for the island known worldwide. Bermuda Institute schoolchildren lined roadsides around his customary place at Crow Lane to cheer his funeral proce...

Parliamentarians and senators have paid tribute to Johnny Barnes, who died in the early hours of last Saturday at the age of 93. In the House of Assembly yesterday, several MPs rose to express their condolences to Mr Barnes’s family as well as share ...

Johnny Barnes’s final wish was that Bermuda “share love and kindness with each other”. Mr Barnes’s widow, Belvina, yesterday revealed the Bermuda icon’s farewell message to the island, which he composed before he passed away. In his message to “the ...