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The Bermuda Regiment will have one of the lowest numbers of recruits in recent memory this year: 80, exactly half last year’s number. Budgeted wages for Bermuda’s defence forces were cut from $2.9 million to $1.7 million in the current Budget. “It’s ...

BAD is acting badly. In the latest incarnation of its long running effort to abolish conscription in Bermuda, Bermudians Against the Draft have launched a campaign to persuade young black men not to cast their ballot in the next general election. The...

Bermudians Against the Draft are planning a campaign urging young black men not to vote. The group’s leader Larry Marshall Sr said members feel “marginalised and maligned” as neither Government nor the Opposition backs their fight against conscriptio...

The Bermuda Regiment Band and Corps of Drums represented the Island in Canada during the 14th annual Fortissimo. This year’s Fortissimo, a Massed Bands Beating Retreat and Concert organised by the Canadian Forces Ceremonial Guard, marked the 140th an...

Back in 1987 Wendell Hollis was a Major in the Bermuda Regiment under the command of Lt Col Gavin Shorto. And then Hurricane Emily hit causing widespread destruction, destruction Bermuda had not seen for many, many years. And that is when the Regimen...

While many believe that the primary role of the Bermuda Regiment is internal security, the realistic main role is to provide disaster relief, especially during a hurricane. Of course the Regiment has many other roles like ceremonial duties and suppor...

An anti-conscription campaigner has received top marks from his college professor for a paper calling for an end to Bermuda’s draft. Jamel Hartman Hardtman wrote the 2,200-word ethics essay, entitled ‘Violating Human Rights for National Interest’, as...