independence campaigners said yesterday.

The Island's constitutional future should therefore be on the election agenda, said the Committee for the Independence of Bermuda.

Mr. Walton Brown, spokesman for the group, slammed the UBP for failing to deal with the subject in its "Blueprint for the Future'' platform, released last week.

And he said the committee was waiting for the other parties to produce their "vision of a future Bermuda''.

The UBP manifesto was short-sighted and bordered on being irresponsible for not talking about the constitutional future of the Island, he said.

"This failure to seriously examine our future is a disservice to the electorate and reflects a seeming desire to avoid the tough issues.'' Mr. Brown said the questions that should be asked included: Would Bermuda stay in "constitutional limbo'' as a British Dependent Territory? Would the Island gain control of its Police or "endlessly allow Britain to hold real power''? What was the strategy for dealing with the citizenship issue and the "anachronistic concept'' of Bermuda Status? "Irrespective of UBP sensitivity to the above issues or even Bermudians' present concern with them, they do now affect us and will continue to do so.

"A Government genuinely concerned about our future would have the courage to address them.''