Despite a number of ?challenges? Alex Scott this week described his first few months as Premier as a positive experience overall.

In fact, the Premier says, he?s having a blast.

Mr. Scott?s first 100 days in power will be on Monday.

?I hate to say how much I?m enjoying it. I?m really getting to like the job. A hundred days? I think I started to like it around day three.?

In a brief interview immediately after he opened his party?s annual conference on Monday, the Premier said that he believed that his administration had ?struck a rapport? with the community and that its message was being received.

?Our first few days was tremendously challenging to say the least,? Mr. Scott said. ?But the support we have gotten throughout those 100 days suggest that we have struck a rapport with the community that we would like to build on. I think they appreciate what we are trying to do, they seem to endorse how we are going about accomplishing what we?d like to do and so far, so good. We are certainly doing better than I would have thought. But I didn?t give any thought as to whether we were going to be popular or not. I just wanted to make sure that we attended to the obvious circumstance we inherited in the party ? that is there were two camps.?

But, said the Premier, the party?s divisions over the leadership were now almost history.

?Now as you?ve heard me say in our speech, it?s one membership that I?m working with. We wouldn?t have been able to put a Cabinet together without the co-operation of the entire membership. We wouldn?t have been able to put together a Senate team that the public seems to support and endorse without the full support of the party.?

He agreed that his administration will be marked by continuity and not be too different from his predecessor?s in terms of substance.

?It?s a different style, but we?ve tried to make it as seamless as possible. It?s not two different parties, it?s just two different leaders but we are both committed to the same party.?

And Mr. Scott struck the same conciliatory tone that has been the hallmark of his Premiership so far.

?I haven?t been questioned by anyone in the party ? it doesn?t mean that folks don?t have questions. But no one has challenged our approach and when they have, they have been very forthright and I think that has worked very well for us. I have made a few missteps in the eyes of some and we explained to them yes it probably could have been done better and I turned a critic into a supporter. And that?s how we are working with the public. We won?t be able to satisfy everyone but we are certainly going to try to include as many people as possible in as we say this journey to the new Bermuda and it seems to be working so far.?

Highlights of his first few months were Hurricane Fabian and the Bermuda Industrial Union led Island-wide strike immediately after.

?Within 72 hours (after Fabian) we physically had Bermuda open. It?s going to take time before we have hotels like Sonesta and Princess online but from the Government?s point of view and the public?s acceptance of what the Government did, I think we acquitted ourselves well,? the Premier continued.

?We have had other challenges. And we sat down with labour and talked our way and worked our way through it and I think we learned something there.

But he said the post-Fabian industrial strife had not been a personal disappointment. ?Labour has to do what labour does. They provide as robust a representation of their membership and we as a Government have to realise that we manage in the interests of all. Labour?s part of our constituency and so I?m happy to say that we have at least a working relationship where we can talk with them and talk openly and candidly. And that seemed to work on that occasion.?

Mr. Scott said that it was understandable that, despite his example, some party supporters were still reticent when dealing with the media.

?The media was here for 90 percent of the question period (at the opening of the conference). But you?ve got to know the Bermuda in which these individuals operate. They don?t know if they stand up and ask a question whether an employer, whether someone outside will act on them because of what they ask in here. It?s nothing to do with the media, it?s to do with the legacy we?re trying to change,? he said.

?The fact that the media was asked to stay is different, the fact that some did ask questions is progress. And this is the PLP conference which used to be totally closed.?

The Premier rated the media?s performance over the last 100 days as ?excellent?.

?I met with all the Editors, I met with the news directors. Comment that used to be scathing before is fair now at least. And I couldn?t ask for more.?