The Royal Bermuda Regiment has been embodied, with soldiers on standby for Hurricane Nicole ready to clear main roads for emergency vehicles, assist with emergency situations as required and respond to other tasks as directed by the EMO. Read More...
Young musicians will be teaming up with the Royal Bermuda Regiment’s band for a concert with a dash of Hollywood glamour. The Bermuda Youth Orchestra will join forces with military musicians next month for the concert, the third of its type, featuring the best of music from the silver screen. Read More...
Two Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers have passed a tough British Army course designed to train a new generation of officers. Alex Gibbs and Samuel Hewitt both graduated from the eight-week Army Reserve commissioning course at the prestigious Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst in Britain — the “university” for would-be Army officers. Read More...
Bermuda’s annual Poppy Appeal to aid ex-servicemen and women is to be launched today. And — for the first time — the appeal will open a pop-up shop and information centre in the Gibbons Building at Reid and Queen Streets in Hamilton. Read More....
Acting Governor Ginny Ferson, Premier Michael Dunkley, Leader of the Opposition David Burt and other dignitaries were on hand to greet the new Governor John Rankin when he arrived in Bermuda this evening. Read More....
The Royal Bermuda Regiment family yesterday united to pay their respects to Colour Sergeant Keith Whorms, who died suddenly last week. Colour Sergeant Whorms, diplomatic driver for the Premier and earlier for the Governor, was 53. Read More...
Bermuda’s new Governor, John Rankin, was officially sworn in at a parade in King’s Square in St George’s this morning. After a march by Royal Bermuda Regiment soldiers, a commission speech by Cabinet Secretary Derrick Binns, a prayer by the Right Reverend Nicholas Dill and an introduction by Michael Dunkley, the Premier, Mr Rankin said it was “a great honour to be appointed as Her Majesty the Queen’s representative as your Governor”. Read More....
For almost five decades Hazel Dalley went out of her way to make the Royal Bermuda Regiment feel at home whenever they trained in Jamaica. Known to generations of soldiers as “Miss Hazel”, “Auntie Hazel”, or “Aunt Haze”, she took the troops under her wing and treated them like her own family. Read More...