for a successful Country is a system and a Country which embraces all people -black, white, rich, poor, no matter their colour or creed. There are others who don't support that because they would like to divide our Country on racial lines.'' After a year in office during which she has been called upon to reunite the United Bermuda Party in the wake of the Independence referendum and the McDonald's mess, both of which she inherited, and to face tough questions from London, the Premier says, "I don't see a role for a future Bermuda as a Bermuda of separation.'' And in an attempt to put the injustices of the past behind the Bermudian people she says, "We have walked that road before and it is an unpleasant road. We've spent 30 years trying to move away from that.'' She says a racial divide could "destroy'' Bermuda.

It seems to us that those people who supported Pamela Gordon for Premier when it was clear that Dr. David Saul would have to go, understood that with her background she could be a healer. She has oriented her Premiership toward the less advantaged people in Bermuda and continues to work to help the disadvantaged, the children, those caught in the drugs menace and those who slipped through the cracks in the education system.

In most places Pamela Gordon would be looked on as a "people's Premier'' but in Bermuda there have been efforts to tar her with the brush of the "old Bermuda''. There are people who want to continue to beat Bermuda to death with the sins of the past and to dwell on past injustices, even personal slights, to the point that they destroy the chances of the people.

Premier Gordon has said, "Some people are still talking about an oligarchy which does not exist, the Front Street which doesn't exist...'' She is correct, of course. While it is true that there is still an unequal distribution of wealth in Bermuda there is hardly an establishment face in any position of power with the exception of the Finance Minister, Grant Gibbons, and Dr. Gibbons just gave us a people's budget if there ever was one.

As we see it, between the talks with London over United Kingdom citizenship, the huge effort being put into reviving tourism, both by the Minister, David Dodwell, and by those sponsoring the Monitor group study, the revived hotels and the proposed new hotels, and the huge fortunes being spent on buildings to house the temperamental international company sector, Bermuda is on the verge of a new beginning. What we are seeing is a dynamic preparation for the new century.