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With her uncanny ability to connect with her students and determination to make teaching fun, Hilary Lightbourne was the “kid whisperer”. Mrs Lightbourne, who died earlier this month, is being fondly remembered for more than three decades as a popula...

Today’s funeral service for Neehari Robinson, the 12-year-old who died from a rare cancer this month, will be live streamed on the internet for family and friends who are unable to attend the service in the UK. Neehari and his family moved from Bermu...

Bryan Butterfield, a star of Bermuda’s entertainment industry for several decades, has died. From the 1940s onwards, Mr Butterfield enjoyed an extensive career as a leading performer in the Island’s nightspots. He also acted as an ambassador up and d...

Few would have witnessed the extraordinary changes in Bermuda over the last century as vividly as Barbara Roberts. As a child of a bygone age Ms Roberts would ride the old ferry from her family homestead in St David’s to the St George’s Grammar Schoo...

Death, admonished the poet John Donne, be not proud. “Mighty and dreadful” though it is considered to be, death’s power is ultimately an illusion. The souls and memories of those it claims live on; the consequences of their actions continue to reverb...

The grief-stricken mother of a young motorcyclist killed in a road accident in England has urged drivers from Bermuda to be extra vigilant when in the UK. Barbara’s Ruewell’s son William died instantly when Bermuda resident Malcolm Griffiths pulled o...

Bermuda yesterday mourned a “unique human being” dedicated to making one Bermuda for all. Robert Vaughan Barritt, a former Member of Parliament, senator and celebrated artist, died recently at the age of 88. Speaking out about the death of his politi...

The heart and soul of Salt Kettle Guest House in Paget, Hazel Lowe was yesterday celebrated by her daughter as the “most gracious, charming, empathetic, caring and kind person”. “She had a delicious sense of humour, tremendous strength and all of her...

Celebrated artist and former Minister of Parliament Robert Vaughn Barritt has died at the age of 88. Mr Barritt, a former MSA and Saltus student, studied fine arts at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada, before returning to Bermuda in 1...

He was only 12 when he died, but Neehari Robinson has left behind a legacy worthy of someone who had lived to be 100. That was the sentiment of his father Otis Robinson as he spoke about his son, who was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer tw...

Tributes have been pouring in from across the Island for a community champion and devoted family man who passed away last week. Father-of-nine Carlston “Blondy” Spencer (right) was 72 years old when he died on June 10. Mr Spencer was a well-known voc...

Pierre Clement Rouja, a key player in the development of the Princess Hotels group and one of Bermuda’s first scuba divers, died last month at the age of 86 following a long illness. Mr Rouja, who was ultimately decorated by the French Government wit...