Bermuda last week.

The former British Lions rugby player was paid a staggering $70 million last year as head of the Heinz Corporation.

He stayed in the penthouse suite at the Southampton Princess Hotel, leaving the Island by private jet early on Friday afternoon. It was not known whether his trip was business or pleasure.

SAY IT WITH ROSES ...

BUC Say it with roses . . .

A touch of European-style romance has crept into Bermuda's night scene over the last nine months with the advent of the firm, Just Roses.

It sends out young women to restaurants, bars and nightclubs trying to persuade Lotharios to part with $6 for a single, specially-packed rose for their loved one.

Some might think it incredibly tacky, but the roses are being snapped up, according to the firm's owner Miss Julie Mayor.

"One of our ladies sold 300 on New Year's Eve,'' she said. "There's a lot of romance still out there.'' She is in urgent need of more sales staff.

Miss Mayor employs three delivery women, who buy batches of flowers from her warehouse in Warwick for a sum she was not prepared to reveal and then add their own mark-up before taking to the streets. They keep the profits.

"The right girls can make upward of $25,000 to $30,000 a year,'' said Miss Mayor, without a hint of insincerity. "On a typical Friday or Saturday night they can expect to sell 100 roses.'' Her women will only enter establishments which have given prior approval to accept the service.

Miss Mayor, who also arranges for roses of any quantity to be delivered for a price of $39.95 per dozen plus $5 delivery, said she clears between 800 and 1,000 flowers a week.

"One of the most popular times seems to be at the end of the evening when men in the clubs snap them up to take home to the wife or girlfriend so they won't be angry with them,''she added.

Aaahh! Who said the age of romance is dead.

NO LIQUOR, NO PARTY EAT No liquor, no party Last month's opening party for the Frog and Onion pub/restaurant in Dockyard was cancelled at the last minute -- because it didn't have a liquor licence! Three hundred invitations had already gone out when the pub decided to postpone the event.

A late flurry of advertisements and phone calls giving people the bad news managed to stop anyone turning up on the day, said manager Mr. Jean-Paul Magnin.

Mr. Magnin, a Frenchman, owns the new pub with Bermudian Mr. Christopher West, hence the name Frog and Onion.

The party was eventually held on May 9 and was a terrific success, said Mr.

Magnin.

REVOLUTIONARY MAGAZINE NJ Revolutionary magazine The world's first magazine to be produced on compact disc-interactive featured a small article and an advertisement on Bermuda-based Five Rings, which plans to develop software for this new technology.

Five Rings' president Mr. Rick Morbey said a US company interested in doing business with his firm had already been in contact with him as a result of the publicity in CD-I World.

The magazine, which is also available in print, has been brought out to help increase awareness of CD-I, which combines a mixture of sound, images (both moving and still), text, data and graphics on a compact disc.

A CD-I player is a cross between a video cassette player and a compact disc music player and plugs into a normal television set. It is set to revolutionise the home entertainment and publishing industries.

For example, someone "reading'' a soccer magazine on CD-I can see goals actually being scored instead of looking at still photographs in print simply by clicking a control button.