George's "like a step-child'' because it has let many roads that were outside the Corporation's jurisdiction accumulate trash.

Ms Jennifer Smith said she noticed how clean the roadsides were as she made her daily journey through "Hamilton Parish, Smith's, Devonshire and Pembroke'', on her way to Hamilton.

But she said she was concerned about St. George's, especially since the new cruise ship will mean more people.

And they may get an unfavourable impression of some areas of the Old Town. She said that areas such as Cut Road, Wellington, and Tobacco Bay were left in a messy state and that St. George's residents deserved the same services as other parts of Bermuda.

Ms Smith also said she hoped that the newly elected Corporation of St.

George's would soon schedule a clean-up of Barrack Hill because it was "disgraceful and needs to be cleaned regularly''.

Works Minister the Hon. Leonard Gibbons said he was sorry that Ms Smith chose not to bring this to his attention earlier, but that it would be worked on.

"I do take credit for the clean roads in Hamilton Parish, Smith's and Devonshire and this is done through our make-work programme,'' he said. "Many of our roads now have an edge that a road sweeper can work from and though the sweepers are not as efficient as we would like, but we will try to improve it.'' Mr. Gibbons promised his Ministry would try to get a small sweeper for the "narrow, lovely, quaint, hard-to-clean (St. George's) Streets.

"We are not perfect at Works and Engineering, though we are working toward that,'' he said.

Also in the motion to adjourn, Shadow Human Affairs Minister Ms Renee Webb (PLP) congratulated her counterpart the Hon. Jerome Dill whose Human Affairs Ministry has organised a series of Anti-Racism workshops with local businesses.

She said these workshops were an important step "to rid the scourge of racism from our shores''.

Ms Webb said Ms Pam Brown, who will be conducting the workshops was "eminently qualified''.

And she questioned why the Minister did not use the services of the National Association for Reconciliation who "have consistently fought against racism, even when this Government did not consider racism a problem.'' "Why aren't Dr. Eva Hodgson's services used? She is also eminently qualified and it should be remembered that the NAR brought Pam Brown to Bermuda in the first place.'' Referring to a letter that was sent to businesses asking them to send a representative to the workshop, Ms Webb pointed out that the letter made no mention that the NAR.

"We must stop overlooking our own people . . . whether you like Dr. Hodgson or not she is committed to ending racism...she is qualified and quite capable of handling this.

"We should impress on our employers to use organisations that are here and use resources we have locally.'' Mr. Dill said he accepted the compliments of his counterpart Ms Renee Webb about the Ministry's work with the Employers' Council providing workshops on race relations.

Mr. Dill said the idea of the workshops was to train trainers for the future.

Following comments from Ms Webb on using the talents of Dr. Eva Hodgson, Mr.

Dill said Dr. Hodgson was helping the Ministry by looking at school text books.

He said: "There is an extreme significance in looking at these text books. If you accept that racism is not something that is innate but is something that is taught, then children are most impressionable to this at an early age.'' Mr. Leon (Jimmy) Williams (PLP) who was re-elected to the Corporation of St.

George's on Thursday, thanked Mr. Gibbons for the support given to the East End and works that will be done on local streets.

He went on to congratulate youngsters Cindi Hooper and Juliette Herman for their essays on Ms Lois Perinchief, Deputy Mayor of St. George's.

He also pointed out that Wednesday was the 80th birthday of Dr. Marjorie Bean, and asked that she be made a dame or baroness for her work in education.