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Premier Visits WWII Vet Randolph Hayward
Premier David Burt today paid a visit to Randolph Hayward, who served with the Bermuda Contingent of the Caribbean Regiment during World War II, with the Premier noting that as ”we approach Remembrance Day, it is important that we celebrate these living links to our history.” A Government spokesperson said, “Premier David Burt today... Read more of this article
Governor Buys First Poppy Of Annual Appeal
Governor John Rankin today [Oct 25] launched the annual Poppy Appeal to raise funds for war veterans and their families. Mr Rankin bought the first poppy from Bermuda Legion welfare case worker Carol Everson and two woman veterans of World War Two, Isobel Flood, 94, who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force and Betty Vincent, 93, who joined the Women’s... Read more of this article
Kremlin Files Shed New Light On Sub Disaster
The air of bleak Cold War irony which attended the incident now seems like something out of a John Le Carre novel. But the events which unfolded in the Atlantic ocean just north of Bermuda over those three days more than 30 years ago were only too real. On October 4, 1986 Ronald Reagan was at Camp David, the presidential retreat in rural Maryland. He... Read more of this article
Video: BFRS & RBR On Hurricane Preparedness
Bernews hosted a News & Views panel discussion today [Oct 11], with Bermuda Fire & Rescue Service Divisional Officer Mark Taylor and Royal Bermuda Regiment Major Dwight Robinson discussing various aspects related to preparing for the approach of a hurricane and how their services respond during and after a storm. Strong winds swept across the... Read more of this article
RBR Soldiers Complete Two-Week UK Exercise
[Updated with video] More than 100 soldiers returned home at the weekend after a tough two-week exercise in the UK designed to test their public order and internal security skills The Royal Bermuda Regiment troops were based at Lydd training camp in Kent, where they used realistic villages to hone their public order techniques against opposition proved... Read more of this article
New Book Chronicles Island’s Military History
The latest book by an international authority on military fortifications spotlights Bermuda’s role in the worldwide chain of military outposts which helped to create and sustain the British Empire. Britain’s Island Fortresses: Defence of the Empire 1756–1956 by Bill Clements, a retired Colonel with 1st Battalion Royal Irish Rangers, was... Read more of this article
Regiment Soldiers Continue Training Overseas
Bermuda’s soldiers today hit hi-tech British Army rifle ranges to hone their marksmanship skills. The Royal Bermuda Regiment’s public order and internal security specialist A Company took advantage of longer ranges and sophisticated moving targets at two army ranges as part of Exercise Active Shield. RBR soldiers hone their marksmanship on the British... Read more of this article
RBR Soldiers Take Part In Large Scale Exercise
Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers today [Oct 1] took part in a large-scale exercise designed to test their skills in protection of key points and casualty evacuation. The troops tackled armed insurgents, protected a building designated as the seat of government and dealt with angry residents as well as with people seriously injured in a massive gas explosion. They... Read more of this article
Soldiers Pass Public Order & Internal Security
Island soldiers passed a gruelling test of their public order and internal security skills at the weekend. The Royal Bermuda Regiment troops were put through their paces under the eagle eyes of experts from the British Army’s Mission Training and Mobilisation Centre to achieve the UK military standard base level for platoon crowd control operations. Private... Read more of this article
Bermuda Soldiers Continue Training In UK
Soldiers on a major training exercise in the UK are backed by a small army of specialist support. Royal Bermuda Regiment Logistics Company troops are working with soldiers from the Regiment’s A Company on the public order and internal security Exercise Active Shield to keep the wheels turning and their colleagues supplied, fed and treated for any... Read more of this article
RBR Trains With Royal Army Veterinary Corps
Bermuda’s soldiers today worked with highly-trained British Army protection dogs as part of a major Royal Bermuda Regiment training exercise in the UK. Troops from the RBR worked with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps’ [RAVC] 1st Military Working Dogs Regiment as they used a purpose-built village at the British Army’s Lydd camp in Kent for public... Read more of this article
RBR Public Order & Security Training Exercise
About 100 Bermuda soldiers yesterday [Sept 24] started a major public order and internal security training exercise with a stand-off against rioters played by British Army soldiers. The Royal Bermuda Regiment troops used a specially-designed village at a training ground in Lydd, Kent, to reinforce lessons learned earlier in the classroom. Lance Corporal... Read more of this article
