the new general manager of the international airport.

The Royal Gazette revealed earlier this week that current boss of the airport Marshall Minors has resigned.

He is due to leave at the end of the month to take up a post in the private sector.

Yesterday, Dr. Brown said it was still not known who would replace Mr. Minors, but he said he would like to see a Bermudian in the top job.

But he revealed that it could take a while to find the right candidate as there may not be anybody with sufficient qualifications and training to take up the role straight away.

The minister said: "We have not decided exactly what we are going to do yet.

"We will possibly wait until next week now because we are not sure how best to do it.

"We want to give a Bermudian the opportunity to succeed. There are people in that airport who have the ability to do the job, but I don't think there is anybody who would be able to do it straight away.'' He said the position would probably be advertised here and overseas and a possibility was the creation of an interim post to plug the gap while a suitable Bermudian was found or trained.

Mr. Minors resigned after less than a year in the chief's job.

He was previously Principal Highways Engineer, before going on to take up a post as the airport's manager of maintenance and engineering in 1995.

MPS DEBATE CALLBACK SERVICES HOA BUC MPs to debate callback services Companies offering callback services to Bermuda residents could find themselves switched off as MPs debate new legislation to outlaw their activities.

The House of Assembly will today consider the Telecommunications Amendment Act 2000, which makes callback services illegal.

It will carry a penalty of two years in prison or a $50,000 fine for operators caught.

The law, coupled with an agreement with the US Federal Communications Commission will put such companies in danger of losing their operating licences overseas.

Callback works by the resident calling an overseas number, which then calls them back -- opening up a line which is routed through a country with cheaper phone costs.

Government Whip Ottiwell Simmons said there was no other business scheduled to be dealt with.

ISLAND TO FEATURE IN DOCUMENTARY TV Island to feature in documentary Bermuda will be featured in an upcoming television biography of rock`n' roll legend John Lennon.

Music channel VH1 will broadcast `Behind the Music: John Lennon -- The Last Years' on December 3 at 9 p.m. following a two-hour special The Beatles Revolution.

The former Beatle came to Bermuda in the summer of 1980, just months before he was shot by a deranged fan as he walked home in New York.

He had begun taking sailing lessons and during a storm-tossed trip to Bermuda was asked to take the helm. Upon arriving on the Island, the musician appeared to have received a new focus and he began preparing material for a new album.

That album's name, `Double Fantasy' was taken from a specific type of freesia that the singer came across growing in the Botanical Gardens during his visit here.