A celebrated Barbados-born innovator, seasoned corporate leader and dedicated environmental steward with deep roots in Trinidad and Tobago, Buddie Miller, has passed away at the age of 81 on a Wednesday, leaving behind a multifaceted legacy spanning engineering, patented inventions, public advocacy and community leadership. As the younger brother of Dame Billie Miller, the former deputy prime minister of Barbados, Miller relocated to Trinidad in 1965 to launch a decades-long professional journey that would cement his reputation as a towering figure in the country’s innovation and industrial circles. Over the course of his corporate career, he climbed senior leadership ranks to serve as chief engineer at global food giant Nestlé, then took on the role of regional general manager at consumer goods firm Chesebrough Ponds, before later establishing a respected practice as an independent business consultant. Parallel to his corporate obligations, Miller dedicated extensive time to research and development, securing a portfolio of international patents for his original inventions, per official statements shared by his family in their public death announcement. His most commercially lauded creation, the Jojovera exfoliating and skin-conditioning soap, took home the top special award for highest commercial potential at the inaugural 2000 Prime Minister’s Awards for Innovation and Invention in Trinidad and Tobago, a national program administered by the country’s leading scientific research body NIHERST. He went on to earn further national recognition in subsequent years: a special merit award for innovative diversity in the 2002 edition of the same competition, and a first-place prize in the mechanical engineering category in 2004. One of his most widely discussed works was a 1977 patented general knowledge board game named *Brainstorm*, which Miller publicly alleged had been copied and repackaged as the globally bestselling trivia franchise *Trivial Pursuit* by a Canadian firm, featuring nearly identical subject categories and question sets. He launched formal legal proceedings over the alleged intellectual property infringement in 2000, and the case remained active for years after he first spoke about it in a 2009 profile with *Caribbean Beat* magazine. Born in Barbados in 1945 as the second child of Frederick Edward “Freddie” Miller — who served as minister of health and social services in the 1956-1961 Hugh Gordon Cummins administration — and Mildred Miriam (Lashley), a trained nurse, Miller nurtured a lifelong passion for the outdoors, hunting and the protection of Trinidad and Tobago’s native forest and wildlife ecosystems. He served two separate terms as president of the Hunters’ Association of Trinidad and Tobago, where he spearheaded policy initiatives to modernize hunting regulation, strengthen sustainable wildlife management practices and protect vulnerable native species. In his 2009 *Caribbean Beat* interview, he called on national authorities to pass more robust wildlife protection legislation, conduct a full national wildlife population census, and roll out a formal licensing framework for wild meat vendors. He repeatedly highlighted that habitat loss, agricultural and industrial pollution, unregulated commercial poaching, and the introduction of invasive non-native species posed existential, underaddressed threats to the country’s unique biodiversity. “There are very few experiences that can compare to being out along one of the Northern Range’s forest streams under the moonlight,” he shared in the 2009 profile. “To be a hunter, you must have a deep, abiding love for the outdoors and for being in the forest, because every creature that can bite, sting, cut or harm you makes its home there.” Miller, a long-term resident of Maracas Valley, St Joseph, is survived by his wife Kamlyn (Ho Sing), his partner of 57 years, five adult children, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Beyond his sister Dame Billie, he leaves behind brother Luther, a veteran real estate professional, and sister Cecille; his two siblings Attlee and Tim predeceased him. His official funeral services are scheduled to take place in Tacarigua, Trinidad on the following Tuesday.