For the people of St. George's South, a constituency won by the Progressive Labour Party by only eight votes in 2003, housing still seems to be the main issue despite new houses and emergency housing recently put in Southside.

The Royal Gazette hit the seemingly never ending streets of Bermuda's largest geographical constituency to find out what issues were important to those who lived and worked there, opinions on the candidates and what they will base their vote on.

St. George's South begins at Abbot's Cliff Road in Hamilton Parish, going down North ShoreRoad and into Harrington Sound ending at Tuckers Town. It continues into St. David's until Chapel of Ease Road and all of Southside. The candidates running for the seat are Attorney General Philip Perinchief for PLP and UBP newcomer Donte Hunt.

Belle Hunt is the floor manager of Tony's Fine Foods in Bailey's Bay and is a proud UBP supporter. She stressed housing is still an important issue in her constituency.

"A lot of people are still sleeping in the Railways Trail and in the caves. People are sleeping on the benches of Coney Island."

Ms Hunt also complained about the bus schedule and said after a certain time, people can't get public transport.

Ms Hunt is a firm backer of the UBP's Donte Hunt, although she won't be voting for him.

That's because she lives in St. George's North where she says: "I have to vote party here in St. George's. I have to take one of the two and I prefer Kenny Bascome more than Jennifer Smith."

She also is not happy with the way PLP has been running the Government and said: "I see too much hanky-panky. They've destroyed the St. George's Police Station and if the UBP get back in, they will have to clean it up. They've demolished the hotels and the UBP will have to clean that up too. What they are doing with the cement is ridiculous. It's like a whole pile of children in a nursery. Let's get a party that's for Bermuda."

Ms Hunt said she thinks the UBP will do a good job if they get back into power because she felt they have learned their lesson and have better, younger candidates. If the PLP get elected, she said she hopes they will do what the people want.

Edith Harvey is an 86-year old resident of Miss Vicky's Lane in Southside and cares the most about improving life for senior citizens.

She complained about not being able to fly away for treatments for her diabetes and said the doctors at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital aren't doing anything to help her.

She also complained about pensions: "The Government needs to help seniors with pensions. It's not enough money to pay the rent and not enough to take care of us. When you retire, they don't want to help you."

When it came to the candidates, Ms Harvey said: "Philip Perinchief has been here and I found him very good with the seniors. I haven't seen Donte Hunt yet but he could have stopped by when I wasn't here."

She said she liked Mr. Perinchief because he is helping her with getting overseas treatment for her diabetes.

Ms Harvey isn't sure what party she will be voting for because she is "in between right now" but is thinking of voting for the PLP. Asked if she is happy with the Government, she said: "They're trying their best. I'm not a person to be complaining because it does not help. If they try to help, I will be satisfied."

Asked if the UBP would do a better job, Ms Harvey said: "Well I hope so. It may be levelled because you can't say one's going to be better than the other. You can't judge people. You have to wait and see what's going to happen."

A resident of Southside apartments on Tommy Fox Road, who only referred to himself as GB, complained about the housing situation because he said he pays rent for a room but isn't allowed to have any guests.

"I appreciate the Government for helping out unfortunate people with housing but if we're paying rent, we should have some leniency."

He complained that the Police officers who live next door in the Police barracks have assessment numbers and can bring whomever they want in and out of their room.

He also claimed there were gay men living in the facility who brought men up to their rooms but he can't have a female companion visit him.

GB, a PLP supporter, said he thought the Government was doing a good job especially with tourism by bringing in low cost airlines.

"Its been a plus but with every plus, there's also a minus. They're helping by giving us a place to live but there are too many rules.

"It's like you're in jail, don't know what that's like but it must be close," he said.

Although he doesn't like the rules the Government have set up, he said living there has allowed him to save money and send it abroad to build a house.

As for the candidates, GB likes Lovitta Foggo, candidate for St. David's, but hasn't seen Mr. Hunt or Mr. Perinchief.

He said: "All I want is the party (PLP) to be there for the people.

"Cut out all the poli-tricks and start doing the politics. All this bickering between the two parties have to stop. We have to be as one and then our youth would want to get into politics."