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Saving Private Ryan is one of my favourite movies. And I felt in need of a little help myself as I limbered up for a forbidding assault course at Warwick Camp after being ordered to volunteer for what I was assured would be the experience of a lifeti...

Training methods have been improved at the Royal Bermuda Regiment, national security minister Wayne Caines told the House of Assembly on Friday. Mr Caines said the second recruit intake of 2018 has taken the total soldiers recruited this year to 65, ...

Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to respond to an opinion which recently appeared in your paper entitled, “End of conscription hurts black males most”. First let me state that this type of column, as insulting as it is, actually helps our ca...

A total of 23 new soldiers passed out of the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s first summer recruit camp last Friday. The soldiers were cheered on by friends and family as they marched on to Warwick Camp’s parade ground to be presented with their rank badges ...

The decision of the Lower and Upper Houses of the Bermudian Parliament on June 22 and July 5, 2018 respectively, to end conscription, in my view, is a most retrograde and unfortunate step for the island, particularly for the black male and underprivi...

New recruits to the Royal Bermuda Regiment yesterday marked the halfway mark of their basic training with a gruelling race around the Warwick Camp assault course. The three sections in the first summer Recruit Camp competed against each other in a cr...

The island’s newest soldiers perfected their drill and weapons safety yesterday. Recruits at the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s first summer recruit camp practised their drill moves and worked with SA-80 rifles in preparation for their visit to the firin...

The Governor paid a visit to the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s first summer recruit camp yesterday. John Rankin, Commander-in-Chief of the RBR, chatted with the service’s newest soldiers, toured Warwick camp and inspected new vehicles brought in to boost ...

The Royal Bermuda Regiment welcomed 24 new recruits to its first summer camp today. The rookie soldiers will spend the next two weeks learning the basics of military life in preparation for a choice of special roles at the end of their training. Shos...

A former senior military officer said yesterday he feared the Government’s decision to end conscription would weaken the island’s defence force. Lieutenant-Colonel Allan Rance, leader of the Nine Colonels, a pressure group of former Commanding Office...

Legislation to end conscription into the island’s military was passed in the House of Assembly last night. Wayne Caines, Minster of National Security, said the Defence Amendment Act was “a once-in-a-generation chance to transform the Royal Bermuda Re...

As we understand it, the Bermuda Government is about to announce legislation that would abolish conscription once and for all. In our long-considered opinion, that will be a serious error in judgment. A survey analysis done by Global Research in Dece...