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No determination has been made on whether anti-draft campaigners Lamont and Larry Marshall and Jamel Hardtman are conscientious objectors, the Defence Exemption Tribunal said yesterday. The Tribunal issued a statement through Government in response t...

A growing attractiveness to volunteers is easing Bermuda Regiment’s reliance on conscription, according to commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Brian Gonsalves. The ratio of volunteers to conscripts increased this year, with 19 volunteers out of 84 ...

Around 70 recruits were at Warwick Camp yesterday for the first day of boot camp, down from 160 last year after the Regiment had its budget slashed from $2.9 million to $1.7 million. Some of the faces were as gloomy as the grey sky above as the recru...

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...