to The Royal Gazette .

Dear Madam Premier, I want to take this opportunity to pass onto you some very grave concerns that I have as a Bermudian.

There are many very important issues facing us on this Island today; but after you tabled the document on proposed constitutional changes; this issue most certainly has become number one for me and, I dare say, many other Bermudians.

I understand your party has taken the position of one-man-one-vote, and all votes of equal value. While I believe our current system of representation works quite well, I do understand that some of the constituencies have become unbalanced with the number of voters in each constituency and perhaps this merits a review.

The main reason I have taken the time to write to you is that I am most concerned that you propose to make constitutional changes after only a debate in the House of Assembly.

This, I consider to be the wrong approach.

The Constitution is the people's document. It is the very foundation of good governance in Bermuda. Before this very important document is changed, it should have the widest scope of consultation possible.

I do not consider closed-door discussions, followed by a debate in the House of Assembly as the proper course of action. This also has no input from the people of Bermuda.

In the past, changes have been made at a constitutional conference. I would suggest this be done again and then followed by a referendum where the people have an opportunity to vote on the key changes.

I appreciate your consideration in this serious matter and look forward to your comments in due course. I am also happy to discuss this matter in more detail if you so desire.

A CONCERNED BERMUDIAN More diplomacy, please September 26, 2000 Dear Sir, After glimpsing September 26's `Bermuda Shorts' section in The Royal Gazette , I was totally disgusted with the article entitled `Painter fined for gross indecency in public park'', which appeared on Page 6.

Then, I turn to Page 40 and there is an advertisement which states "The world is yours. Encourage your child to read a newspaper.'' After seeing this article, I truly can say that no child of mine will be reading your newspaper. I quote from the advertisement on Page 40, "open a door to entertainment, wonder and knowledge for your children.'' I wonder if you think that that article was a sort of entertainment, wonder and knowledge that it needed to be printed for the whole of Bermuda to see? The article could have been written with more diplomacy and without the unnecessary gross details. In the future, I would really appreciate it if you would critique the article which come out in The Royal Gazette , because I was not entertained in any way.

ROSLYN P. AMORY Sandy's Parish Description went too far September 26, 2000 Dear Sir, In today's edition of The Royal Gazette , I was shocked to read the graphic depiction in an article in the Bermuda Short's section entitled "Painter fined for gross indecency in public park''.

This type of raw description is entirely unprofessional and in appropriate for a national newspaper. It is your duty to inform the public, however you cannot assume that all of your readers are over the age of eighteen years.

I am not a parent, but would hope that if I ever am that such disgusting descriptions can be replaced with such phrases like "indecent act'' or "caught in a compromising position''.

I would like to suggest that the author of this article use a thesaurus in the future.

MERLIMUS City of Hamilton Labour on -- together August 30, 2000 Dear Sir, What Emperor Haile Salassie I has taught me on the importance of unity between the employer and the employee, I would like to share with the owner and managers of business entities, the presidents of labour unions and all those wish to learn.

Harmonious relations and voluntary co-operation between management and those who labour will create better collective bargaining and the peaceful settlement of disputes.

Government must put in place laws, regulations, and guidelines that labour unions and employers must respect. These guidelines must encourage and promote harmony between those that labour and those that manage with collective productiveness being the ultimate goal.

Since industrial peace is necessary for the social and economic stability of us all, it is of great importance that both employers and labourers work with each other towards this common goal.

The participation, cooperation, sacrifice and farsightedness of all individuals will benefit not only the workers and employers, but ultimately the whole country.

Employers and those that labour must see each other as partners working together, not only with and for each other, but for the well-balanced social and economic development and progress of their country.

The economic advancement of a country demands not only the accumulation of wealth, but also on well-trained manpower.

Education is most important and must be encouraged.

Without the trained manpower that education produces, simple understanding will not be realised and ignorance will foster. Education will enable the labourers to understand their rights and obligations. It will also help to increase their productivity and improve their standard of living.

The coming together of employers and labourers to share in their common goal without exploitation or regard to their race, creed or sex will become a true symbol of unity.

Based on a speech by H.I.M. Haile Salassie I. April 8, 1970 RAS MYKKAL Warwick Hotel handouts will hurt Dear Sir, I just wanted to congratulate Robert Stewart on his brilliant speech recently at the Hamilton Rotary Club luncheon.

He made a great deal of sense. If the new owners taking over the Marriott's hotel cannot make it without subsidies, then they will only last as long as this Government is going to give them hand outs.

The hand outs, by the way, will come directly from you, the taxpayers. No doubt the PLP will have to implement another tax in order to cover this subsidy.

The main reason why I feel this is a totally futile exercise is because the Bermuda Industrial Union and the PLP Government are one and the same body.

Let's assume that David Allen, in his wisdom, goes ahead with this crazy scheme of subsidising a large hotel corporation with the taxpayers' money.

Then his friends in the BIU make their ludicrous demands on an already overburdened industry; we will be back to square one. This Government will have to increase the subsidy to cover the demands by the BIU -- and believe me they will always side with the BIU.

The hotel industry is in a downward spiral and subsidising a large hotel corporation is definitely not the answer. The answer is with the BIU who should have offered to give something back to the hotels long ago, but they don't have the foresight to recognise this.

The abuse of sick pay in the hotels is a joke. The increasing demands for higher and higher wages, with less and less work is another joke. The tax payers will, in effect, be paying for the ever increasing subsidies.

What happened in the Bahamas will inevitably happen in Bermuda -- and they had about 25 years of hard times.

CAMELOT Southampton It all goes around September 25, 2000 Dear Sir, Referring to objections to our tax money helping hotels to continue operating here and employing our people.

There are precedents for such actions. Many years ago, when Furness ships were coming to Bermuda weekly bringing tourist, if we had not engaged in subsidising to those trips to the tune of 85,000 annually, those trips would have stopped long before they did. Just like now, the then government wanted employment connected to tourism to continue.

A few years ago we pulled Sea Land Construction out of a hole to the tune of $2m on the Westgate job. They are still going on from strength to strength.

On the subject of the possible `Craigmore' purchase for a tourist office for Government by international companies which was resurrected in a letter in The Royal Gazette (September 22) by someone called `Ad Rem', I remember when the previous government under the Hon. John Swan said there was no money to continue building a facility at the Bermuda College.

Sir John said that maybe the international companies will be willing to help out with funds donated. Sure enough, certain of them did make big donations, no one made a peep of a comment then.

Congratulations to Bank of Bermuda on becoming an exempt company.

ROSS TUZO Warwick