HEATED DISCUSSIONS EXPECTED HOA Heated discussions expected A new law to plug the loophole which won axed Assistant Police Commissioner Wayne Perinchief a massive cash pay-off is set to generate heat on the first day of the new session of the House of Assembly.

---- Page 3 BOAT OPERATORS' HIGH HOPES BUC Boat operators' high hopes A tour boat operator yesterday prophesied a booming trade on the water this coming season. And Yoshi Corporation's David Durham, the operator of the MV Bermuda Longtail , told The Royal Gazette that his company had manoeuvred into a perfect position to take full advantage of the projected boon. "Everybody's moving already,'' he noted. "Operators are just buzzing no matter what type of cruise they are doing.'' ---- Page 3 INCENTIVE PROGRAMME REVISE BUC Incentive programme revised Business at Hemisphere Group Ltd. grew so much that Mutual Risk Management Ltd. executives would have received $5 million in bonus payable next year.

However Bermuda-based Mutual Risk, which bought local company Hemisphere for $11.6 million in 1996, decided to revise the incentive programme with a bonus arrangement payable over three years. ---- Business, Page 13 HUBBARD IN STUNNING WIN CYC Hubbard in stunning win He's no longer just Elliot Hubbard, Bermudian. He's now Elliot Hubbard, top pro cyclist. Any doubts that the two were identical were erased last night when Hubbard stunned a field of world-class riders to win the Conyers Dill and Pearman Classic criterium in Hamilton. ---- Sport, Page 25 LIGHTBOURNE, BASCOME JOIN UP SOC Lightbourne, Bascome join up Clyde Best is set to play his two professionals in a new-look strike partnership against Cuba in the Shell Caribbean Cup in the Cayman Islands tonight. Kyle Lightbourne is expected to team up with David Bascome as Bermuda seek to expose a suspect Cuban rearguard in the first of the Island's two cup matches in three days. ---- Sport, Page 25