management for recession-hobbled Bermuda, The Royal Gazette has learned.

The speech, which outlines Government's legislative agenda for the new Parliamentary session, will emphasise continued adherence to programmes it believes are meeting the needs of Bermudians in need.

Social assistance, housing assistance and dollar-a-day job creation works will be featured.

Governor Lord Waddington, who will be reading his first Speech from the Throne, will also enunciate the Government's efforts to forge a new job-creating partnership with private enterprise.

The effort has involved top Government representatives, including the Premier, in talks with businessmen with a view to persuading them to move ahead on capital projects.

Finance Minister the Hon. David Saul last week said the initiative was based on an assessment that new construction industry jobs were the most effective way to ease unemployment.

Tomorrow's speech will also highlight specific legislative plans for the new session, which runs to December and then from February to the summer.

Government will announce its intention to bring forward a long-awaited Bill to drastically toughen penalities for sexual offences. The legislation will involve amendments to the Criminal Code.

An Immigration Act amendment is planned that would give status rights to the foreign-born children of Bermudian women. The legislation will effectively give equal legal status to women and men.

Under current legislation, a child born overseas to a Bermudian woman and her foreign-born husband does not have status at birth while a child born overseas to a Bermudian man and his foreign-born wife does.

The Throne Speech will also detail Government's intention to pass enabling regulations for the new Clean Air Act. New regulations will establish air quality standards for various industries such as asphalt and aggregate plants and the Bermuda Electric Light Company.

The legislation will include a phase-in period and creation of a monitoring body.

The Human Rights Act is to be amended to bind Government to its provisons.

Amendments will also include measures to protect people from sexual harrassment.

Government will announce its intention of bringing forward legislation that will set up National Drugs Authority in the form of a quango.