in a bid to build stronger ties with the Aquarium.

David Godfrey, the executive director of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC), will arrive on the Island Tuesday to raise conservation awareness and forge a closer relationship with the Flatts' attraction.

CCC is a Florida based, nonprofit organisation founded in 1959 to study and conserve sea turtles in the Caribbean.

In the 1960's a CCC board member started studying sea turtles in Bermuda, in particular the Juvenile Green Turtle.

Mr. Godfrey said the CCC conducted a monitoring programme on the Island until the Aquarium took it over in the early 1990's.

But he said that the CCC and the Aquarium still collaborated on the research.

"I'm interested in increasing the collaboration, especially on education,'' Mr. Godfrey said. "I'm going to see if we can work together to increase the international awareness of the Bermuda turtles and the research that has been uncovered.'' While on the Island, Mr. Godfrey will also deliver a lecture at the Aquarium Thursday at 7 p.m.

And she said the Premier's response to a Press question that "if the PLP wants to send something to Government, they could'' did not amount to an invitation to cooperate on submissions to Britain.

She added: "We, like the public, have learned of Government's various responses to the conference from the news media.'' Ms Smith said she had not received a copy of Government's wish-list forwarded to the UK.

She added: "I really cannot comment in any great detail on what is different from ours.'' The six PLP delegates to the conference are Ms Smith, Mrs. Browne Evans -- the legal advisor -- MPs Walter Lister and Paula Cox and PLP Secretary General Walter Roban.

Government will be represented by the Premier, who will deliver a speech on Bermuda's perspective on it status as a Dependent Territory, and Labour and Home Affairs Minister Quinton Edness.

They will be backed by Cabinet Secretary Leo Mills and Labour and Home Affairs Permanent Secretary John Drinkwater.