A six-strong delegation from Bermuda — including the Governor and the Premier — have been in Jamaica this week to observe Regiment soldiers in training.

Sir Richard Gozney and Dr. Brown were accompanied by Public Safety Minister David Burch, Police Commissioner George Jackson, Cabinet Secretary Marc Telemaque and the Premier's executive aide Jamahl Simmons on the trip to Kingston.

On Wednesday, they saw members of the Bermuda Regiment's Support Company undergo specialist training, along with the Honorary Colonel of the Regiment, Eugene Rayner, and the British Defence Staff's assistant military attaché Colonel Neil Fairclough.

The delegation visited Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies to see a demonstration on casualty stabilisation by Private Terry Foote and other members of the Regiment's Medical Section on an emergency care/treatment certification course.

At Up Park Camp, the headquarters of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Dr. Brown met with members of the Regiment's Guns and Assault Pioneers Platoon, who have been training in bridging skills, explosives handling and the construction of barbed wire entanglements.

The trip also took in HMJS Cagway, the JDF Coast Guard's headquarters at Port Royal, where members of the Regiment's Boat Troop are in training. The Governor and Premier visited members of Alpha Company in Spanish Town then travelled north to Moneague where the see remainder of the battalion.