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A Royal Bermuda Regiment soldier who signed up for a stint of life on the ocean wave has just finished a major disaster relief exercise in the Caribbean. Lieutenant Ci’re Bean, 23, was attached to the Royal Navy’s HMS Medway to help plan and carry o...

The leader of the Bahamian Progressive Liberal Party was yesterday congratulated by the Progressive Labour Party after he became his country’s Prime Minister. Philip “Brave” Davis, leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, led his party to victory ove...

Leaders must be held accountable for their actions if the rule of law is to prevail. For the military, accountability derives from civilian control over our armed forces. This is the governing principle of civil-military relations; it is central to o...

Campaigners and trades unions today appealed to the UK to back a drive to make coronavirus vaccine available to developing countries. A statement from the Bermuda Trade Union Congress, Social Justice Bermuda and Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda –...

How can nations engage with failed states where governmental functions have become paralysed and countries that have fallen into civil war, and prevent them from becoming hotbeds of terrorism? Based on the lessons learnt from the 20-year “war on terr...

With its withdrawal from Afghanistan complete, the United States is left trying to remember why it invaded the country in 2001, and to wonder what two decades of war accomplished. Ostensibly the key to the post-9/11 “war on terror”, the US occupation...

The news flashed across dozens of wall-mounted screens as I stepped off the jet bridge into the airport terminal: US commandos had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The tenth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001, was only a few months aw...

“The pen is mightier than the sword” is a word picture as a metaphor created by an English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, which characterises how powerful and superior effective words, information and even education can be in resolving conflict...

Much of the world in the period of a week experienced traumatic events that left even those with a keen knowledge of international events astonished — with far more questions floating about than answers, especially when Afghanistan after 20 years saw...

The rapid fall of Afghanistan to Taleban control presents Britain and its Nato allies with two primary dilemmas — the first is immediately pressing, the second has longer-term implications. The urgent task is to determine a policy for Afghans seeking...

As the American military pulled out of Afghanistan, Kabul fell with stunning speed to determined fighters with medieval desires about everything but the accoutrements of war. Taleban fighters with their long beards and long guns drove through the ci...

The Mayor of St George brought the sunshine to a UK coastal town last week while on a visit to commemorate Sir George Somers, who helped to found Bermuda. George Dowling III and several members of the Corporation of St George’s visited the town of L...