timeshare units into residential units.

The in principle application to the Planning Department was made by the Hamiltonian Hotel & Island Club on Robin Hood Drive on April 23.

No-one could be reached at the club yesterday for comment.

The Hamiltonian Hotel & Island Club last hit the headlines when its timeshare director Harold Stavisky was convicted by a Boston court of embezzling $150,000 from investors.

Mr. Stavisky was given a two-year suspended sentence and fined $60,000 in 1994. He was later adjudged bankrupt in November, 1995, after failing to pay fees to Mello, Hollis, Jones & Martin but this was annulled when the legal bill was paid in full.

Elsewhere, the Dellwood Middle School has moved to secure extra space for its students at it North Street, Pembroke site.

The Department of Education has filed an application with the DAB for permission to set up two portable, prefabricated classroom buildings there while renovation work proceeds on existing buildings.

Principal Carol Bassett explained that the classrooms were for art and science classes.

Science labs were being built in a two-storey structure that would not be ready until 2000 or 2001 and space was needed now, she said, adding that a science lab had already been set up in the art room and so art needed a home also.

Meanwhile the Planning Department also received a request for permission to erect a life-sized statue of Bermudian ambassador Johnny Barnes on the Foot of the Lane roundabout.

The Spirit of Bermuda lodged the application for final planning approval with the DAB on April 27. It is for a statue of Mr. Barnes by sculptor Desmond Fountain plus base, paving and lighting.

And Saltus Grammar School called on the DAB to approve its plans to realign its access and exit road while the Mermaid Beach & Racquet Club requested permission to go ahead with a revised scheme for its parking layout and landscaping of its newly converted residential units on South Road.

MOBILE LIBRARY OFF THE ROAD LIB Mobile Library off the road The Mobile Library will be off the road for the next two weeks.

According to a spokesman from the Bermuda National Library, the regular driver is on holiday and the library has been unable to secure a temporary replacement.

The spokesman yesterday apologised for the inconvenience and said members would not be penalised for overdue books which had been signed out from the Mobile.

He added that Mobile users were welcome to visit the main library on Queen Street in Hamilton to return books or wait until May 19 when the Mobile Library will be on the road again.