Tackling poverty, health and gangs are likely to be high on the agenda when new Premier Ewart Brown unveils his programme for the year in what sources say will be a short, punchy statement of deliverables.

One person close to Dr. Brown predicted early moves on setting up satellite mini-hospitals in Somerset and St. George?s will likely be announced in the Throne Speech tomorrow.

The source added: ?You can guarantee that will be high on his agenda. We are looking at ways we can get these things up and running now. He told you on Monday morning his Government will be about work.?

The Throne Speech is being totally revised, but policies to help young black males and to help renovate sports clubs are also likely to survive from the old version.

The gang issue will also be a key plank of the new programme.

One insider said: ?The Premier has a plan for gangs having lived in LA. The churches will be involved. It will be very heavy.?

Sources say the document, to be read by the Governor at the official reopening of Parliament, has had a substantial rewrite from the lengthy document planned by former Premier Alex Scott.

Before being turfed out by Progressive Labour Party delegates Mr. Scott had promised ?the most comprehensive Throne Speech I have had a hand in?.

Mr. Scott continued: ?It takes further the sustainable development and the social agenda initiatives. It will make life better for Bermudians in very real ways.?

However Dr. Brown made some pointed references to Sustainable Development and the Social Agenda in his address to delegates on Friday.

He said: ?Our people care about sustainable development but they are more concerned about child care and child development.?

The Throne Speech will likely promise new help for working families struggling with child care costs.

Recently the new Premier indicated vouchers might be the way forward.

Dr. Brown is likely to want to make real inroads in addressing poverty having previously chided former Premier Mr. Scott for saying only that: ?We are going to make a step in that direction.?

Dr. Brown had retorted: ?After eight years we should be doing more than making a step. We should be feeling the impact of steps already taken.?

Insiders are also predicting a renewed emphasis in helping the young black males having noted Dr. Brown?s record in promoting them within departments he has run.

Rolfe Commissiong said Government?s report on Young Black Males had been completed and policies to tackle the issue were due to be included in the Throne Speech although he was not sure what had been promised.

Similarly he said Mr. Scott had been due to announce the setting up of boards of governors to handle Government cash being given to improve sports clubs.

Given Dr. Brown?s interest in both issues, Mr. Commissiong said he was hopeful both elements would survive.

But he cautioned: ?To some degree the Throne Speech might indeed be still be rather sketchy, not as comprehensive as it would have been had they had more time to formulate.?

A crunch moment tomorrow will be how Dr. Brown plans to tackle independence.

He signalled it would not be a priority when he unveiled his platform to the media after resigning from Cabinet.

But in his address to delegates he said people wanted a leader ?courageous? and ?stubborn? enough to move the country towards autonomy.

Stringent new curbs on traffic growth have also been foreshadowed during Dr. Brown?s leadership campaign.

Rationing car permits among exempt company staff has already been raised by Dr. Brown who has signalled he means business by keeping the Transport brief.

It looks as though tomorrow?s ceremony ? which sees Bermuda?s high and mighty break out their best clothes and outlandish hats for the gathering on the Cabinet grounds ? will be brief.

One source said: ?It?s very short. Down from 20 pages to five or six pages. If you blink twice it will be finished.?

The statement has avoided long explanations of new departures such as the Ministry of Social Rehabilitation.

But it is expected to draw from the core of the platform given by Dr. Brown to PLP delegates.

So the 2006/07 legislative programme will quickly abolish the hospital?s indigent care clinic ? dubbed a poor folk?s clinic ? and allow the poor to see the doctor of their choice at the taxpayer?s expense.

On education Dr. Brown has promised more resources for under-achievers as well as a fast track for the brightest via mentoring schemes.

Andre Curtis, Dr. Brown?s campaign manager during the delegate?s vote, said the new leader?s style would be all about delivering on promises.

He said: ?Within the first 100 days people will see significant changes.?

Prospective United Bermuda Party candidate Mark Pettingill predicted nothing new would emerge. ?But the lack of vision will be articulated better than it was before.?