I am writing to you to express my concern about the proposed changes in the electorates with reduced numbers of elected Members of Parliament.

There should be an outcry from the community that such a radical change in how our Government works could be made without a full and frank discussion through a Constitutional Conference and a clear two-thirds majority in a Referendum.

Where is this outcry? I think this is a watershed event for this PLP government. If we let them do this without a fight we only have ourselves to blame when the next outrage is committed and the next. Ask yourselves if the PLP Government has the best interest of this country at heart or some other more sinister agenda. You will have to ask yourselves as they are not talking to us! I have somewhere else to go if things get unpleasant here but many other people do not. Now is the time to speak out before we are presented with a fait accompli. Please join me in expressing your concern through Letters to the Editor.

DR. VALERIE JAMES Warwick Help the flamingo October 16, 2000 Dear Sir, The Bermuda National Trust and the Bermuda Aquarium -- can you help Charlie? For the past year or so a flamingo, whom I call "Charlie'', has been a resident at Warwick Pond.

As I understand it, Charlie and his mate got blown away from the Aquarium in a storm. They ended up at, and for a period of time, resided at Spittal Pond.

Unfortunately Charlie's mate passed away and he somehow found his way to Warwick Pond.

Since then he has stood like a sentinel, like Stonewall Jackson, at the same spot guarding Warwick Pond every day. He appears to be very healthy and content. Yet I am sure he must be lonesome.

I suggest that the Bermuda Aquarium take two or three (or at least one) of its many flamingos, (ideally of the opposite sex), and deliver them to Charlie.

So what could happen? Charlie might become the father of baby flamingos living at Warwick Pond. They might flourish and start their own community.

Today Warwick Pond, although a nature preserve, is not a tourist attraction.

If Charlie was to raise a family there, it could become a tourist attraction.

Probably some entrepreneur would open a snack stand there and tourists sightseeing vehicles would include Warwick Pond to visit on their rounds.

Actually, Charlie is not quite yet a part of Bermuda's history. But anyone can today go to Warwick Pond and see Charlie standing tall and guarding his adopted kingdom.

GREG FALZONE Warwick