turning it into a national park.

And he called for the estate to be held as hostage until the US cleans up pollution on its old Navy base -- or the $15 million house and grounds to be handed over to Government as part payment for the work.

National Liberal Party spokesman Graeme Outerbridge said: "It would be excellent to make Grape Bay a public beach through the purchase of Chelston and settle the access issue to this beach for the benefit of the Bermuda public and tourism.'' He added that the Bermuda Land Development Company should be axed and the old Canadian base, now Morgan's Point, also designated a national park.

Mr. Outerbridge said: "This was land taken by forced purchase for defence of the free world.

"This land does not now need to be developed for foreign ownership when Bermuda has not properly housed its own people.'' Works and Engineering Minister Alex Scott earlier confirmed Government was looking at buying Chelston, the home of US Consuls General since the 1960s.

He said the primary reason for consideration being given to buying the house and its 14 acres was to protect it for future generations.

And he said any use of the luxury mansion as a Premier's residence had not been discussed.

TRIAL DATE SET FOR TRIO CTS Trial date set for trio A trial date has been set for three Pembroke men accused of depriving a man of his liberty and causing him grievous bodily harm.

And a fourth man, Sergio Augustus, pleaded guilty on June 10 to causing actual bodily harm to Tyari Harvey on January 22 last year.

Marcel Reid Rubaine, 20, of Secret Lane, and Sean Eugene Harvey, 24, of Valley View Lane are free on $500 bail until the trial on September 28.

But Magistrate Edward King continued a warrant on the third man, 18-year-old Damanay Burchall and ordered that he "not be bailed'' when apprehended.

The men are accused of being concerned together in depriving Mr. Harvey of his liberty between June 25 and 26 last year.

They also deny being concerned together in injuring Mr. Harvey.

There have been five adjournments since the men were originally charged in October due to the difficulty in getting all of the men before a magistrate at the same time.

Augustus, 19, of Angle Street, will be sentenced on August 10 after Acting Magistrate Justin Williams reads a social inquiry report.

EDUCATOR ON THE MOVE ED APP Educators on the move There will be some changes at the helm of Government primary schools around the Island this September.

Veteran educators Stanfield Smith and Mr. Gladstone Thompson have been promoted to the top posts at Northlands Primary and Southampton Glebe, respectively.

Both men have extensive experience in the local public school system.

Mr. Smith, who is the acting principal at East End Primary, had served 22 years as a science teacher at Berkeley Institute before moving to East End.

Mr. Thompson, currently team leader of M3 at Spice Valley Middle School, is also the National Debate Coach and has supervised the Government summer day camps for the past ten years.

Other movements will see Mrs. Eunice Jones leave Southampton Glebe to run Gilbert Institute, and Mrs. Carole Figueiredo leave Gilbert to replace Mrs.

Davina Blakeney who is retiring from West Pembroke Primary.

PROPOSALS FOR SAFE ROADS GVT Proposals for safe roads Including a vehicular homicide clause and lifetime bans for drivers who kill are just some of the proposals received by the Road Safety Council.

Last week was the deadline for submissions to the Road Safety Council in its "Safe Roads Now'' campaign.

Roxanne Christopher, road safety officer, said her department had received "about a dozen or so'' responses.

She said the proposals tended to focus on traffic congestion and drunk driving.

"I think it's a positive response,'' she said. "Something like this has not happened before. The public have been given an opportunity to give input.'' Ms Christopher said proposal writers called for more cooperation between Government and bar owners and for stiffer penalties for traffic violations.

"Drunk driving has been a rite of passage for too long,'' she said. "We're making headway in our education campaign that drunk driving is not good. This is a part of that campaign.''