are at their worst since the 1960s and that the PLP has solutions. He says this in the wake of promoting the PLP's candidates for the next election and presenting the same faces in the same seats and the same one white face.

The PLP promised the public new and dynamic candidates with the expertise to run the Country but it has not produced a new face in a safe seat and the people it has suggested for the marginals are not a surprise and can hardly be put in the category of dynamic new leaders. There are no new white faces to demonstrate, at the least, the party's intent to integrate and the PLP does not seem to be able to get its proven party chairman, accountant Terry Lister, to stand for election.

The new people the PLP has provided are, generally, recognised as mavericks.

Political parties everywhere in the world have to be careful to give the public candidates who can fairly represent their platform and who can evenly represent the people, not to present to the public candidates who have a personal cause. Dr. Ewart Brown as a PLP candidate has made it very clear to Bermuda that he is in politics not to contribute to Bermuda but to seek revenge for his failure to pass his medical tests.

For many years the United Bermuda Party had a tendency to stick with the same candidates until it was clear at the last election that some were pretty "old hat''. But in recent selections, primary or not, the UBP has demonstrated that it can and will choose younger candidates from a variety of backgrounds. The UBP's "old guard'' is bring replaced with new candidates who have proved their personal worth. There is tremendous variety when you consider that the UBP safe seat candidates range from Dr. E.F. Gordon's daughter, Senator Pamela Gordon, to lawyer Trevor Moniz and from businessman Tim Smith to senior barrister Richard Spurling. The UBP is proving that it will give youth and talent a chance, even putting some of its young stars like Mr. E. Michael Jones and Senator Wendell Hollis in marginal constituencies.

PLP leader Mr. Frederick Wade quite properly talks about changes in the United States with the election to the presidency of Governor Bill Clinton. He cites worldwide dissatisfaction with political leaders and then, very strangely, uses the defeat of his friend and supporter Sir Lynden Pindling in the Bahamas to support his argument. He didn't tell Bermuda that Sir Lynden was deserving of defeat when he invited him to Bermuda to open the PLP's revamped Alaska Hall. There have been a great many strange statements, distortions and downright lies in the process of the US election but we continue to hope that Bermuda's politicians will at least try not to mislead the people.

The fact is that the PLP promises new faces and new talent and has, so far, not produced. We accept that there may be more candidates to come and we can only hope they will, as Mr. Wade says, be selected "on their merits'' to benefit the Country.