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Bermuda Regiment

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BAD should learn about service to country

15 December 2013 Dear Sir, We would like to make a couple of comments about Mr Marshall of BAD’s press release of late last week. First, in the debate over whether conscription is a violation of human rights, we are happy to stand in solidarity wit...
Dec 16, 2013
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BAD strike back at ex-COs

A group of former Regiment commanders campaigning to keep conscription have been condemned as “misguided former soldiers who have no regard for human rights”. And the eight ex-servicemen have also come under fire for being “the primary beneficiaries ...
Dec 13, 2013
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Top brass launch fight to save Regiment

A band of former Bermuda Regiment commanding officers is launching a campaign to block conscription from being abolished, claiming the move is not in the best interests of the Island and will result in the army unit eventually being dissolved. The gr...
Dec 11, 2013
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In defence of the Bermuda Regiment

This letter from some of the Bermuda Regiment’s commanding officers was sent to The Royal Gazette this afternoon. We have published it in full. Dear Sir, The recruitment process by which the Bermuda Regiment sustains its strength has been maligned i...
Dec 10, 2013
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UK experts put services through a bomb training course

UK armed forces experts are in Bermuda to help train soldiers, police and firefighters on how to deal with unexploded bombs. Governor George Fergusson and Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley yesterday watched the three-strong Explosive Ordnance Di...
Dec 05, 2013
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Dunkley: I haven’t changed my position on a Regiment inquiry

Deputy Premier Michael Dunkley insisted yesterday he was not dragging his feet on whether an inquiry should be held into historic complaints of sexual misconduct in the Bermuda Regiment. The Public Safety Minister, who repeatedly called for an indepe...
Nov 28, 2013
Letters to the Editor

Setting the record straight on Bermuda Regiment

November 26th, 2013 Dear Sir, I have read with interest Mr Larry Marshall’s recent long letters to the Editor about the Regiment. I do not propose to prolong the correspondence unnecessarily and would disagree with many of his emotive...
Nov 27, 2013
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Dunkley’s U-turn on abuse inquiry

Public Safety Minister Michael Dunkley appears to have changed his mind about the need for an inquiry into historic complaints of sexual misconduct in the Bermuda Regiment. The Deputy Premier, who as an Opposition MP was vocal about the need for a th...
Nov 26, 2013
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Former Regiment CO appointed CEO of East End Telecom

Lt Col Brain Gonsalves, the former Commanding Officer of the Bermuda Regiment, is joining East End Telecom (Telecom) as its chief executive officer, the company’s board of directors has reported. A press release announcing the appointment stated: “Br...
Nov 26, 2013
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City office workers tough it out at Warwick Camp

Staff from some of Bermuda’s top businesses have been given a taste of army life in a tough corporate challenge. Accountancy firm KPMG came out top after tackling a series of gruelling tests. Brian Flynn, 25, from Warwick, who works in KPMG’s tax dep...
Nov 25, 2013
Letters to the Editor

Adding insult to injury

November 20, 2013 Dear Sir, Thank you for allowing me space to reply to comments attributed to Lt Col Michael Foster-Brown the current CO of the Bermuda Regiment which appear in The Royal Gazette on November 9, 2013. In that article Lt Col Brown make...
Nov 21, 2013
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