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“It’s a wonderful day – perhaps the best day of the year in Bermuda.” That’s how retired soldier Sumner “Chip” Waters described Remembrance Day, which was marked in Bermuda and around the world yesterday – the anniversary of the end of the First Worl...

Major Dwight Robinson has played a central role in scores of ceremonies and pageants both at home and abroad in the past two decades. But after conducting the Royal Bermuda Regiment Band and Corps of Drums for almost 20 years, he has finally handed ...

The Royal Bermuda Regiment Association has presented the Bermuda Legion with a cheque for $1,000 towards its annual poppy fundraising appeal. Peter Aldrich, the association’s president, said: “This annual donation from the RBRA to the Bermuda Legion ...

The annual fundraising effort to support Bermuda’s war veterans got under way yesterday when Rena Lalgie, the Governor, made a donation in return for the first Remembrance Day poppy of this year’s campaign. Ms Lalgie was presented with the poppy by 9...

The Royal Bermuda Regiment Association is calling on current and former members of the regiment, the Bermuda Rifles or the Bermuda Militia Artillery to join the organisation. Formed in February 2020, the RBRA aims to promote and maintain the traditi...

Coastguard crews from the Royal Bermuda Regiment took part in a helicopter winching exercise thanks to a visit from a Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship. The offshore training involved a Royal Navy aircraft from RFA Tideforce, which arrived last week for a b...

A Royal Navy ship is paying a visit to Bermuda to take part in hurricane preparedness exercises, Government House has said. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s Tideforce, which is designed to support the UK’s two Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers, is ...

An annual event full of “pomp and pageantry” will take place next month after it was postponed earlier this year. The Peppercorn Ceremony will be held on King’s Square in the Town of St George on October 12. It was planned for last April but was push...

Bermuda had a narrow escape after Hurricane Fiona grazed past the island in the early hours of yesterday. Although gusts of up to 113mph were recorded in the west end at the height of the hurricane, damage was largely limited to downed trees and tel...

The Royal Bermuda Regiment is to embody at 4pm today in advance of the arrival of Hurricane Fiona. The 131 troops are on duty by order of the Acting Governor, Tom Oppenheim. Five immediate response teams are being mobilised, including one with mariti...

Among guests at yesterday’s proclamation ceremony of the King was the island’s first Black Bermudian aide-de-camp, who served as equerry, or assisting officer, to the Queen in her 1975 visit to Bermuda. For Major Alvin Daniels, 76, the death of the Q...

People interested in joining the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s defence or promotions boards have been invited to apply by Rena Lalgie, the Governor. Ms Lalgie has called on “suitably qualified” candidates to come forward as she expressed the need for an “...