come under the microscope after next month's Budget. Dr. Saul was speaking on the day he brought a trio of faces from the ranks of the so-called People's Five back into the fold in a bid to put the "united'' back into the UBP. As predicted, C.V. (Jim) Woolridge, Dr. Clarence Terceira, and Dr. David Dyer were all appointed to Ministries. Dr. Saul said he would now look at the upper house. "I have strengthened the Cabinet, made moves, now I will look at the Senate,'' he said. Dr. Saul declined to be specific about a timescale for a Senate shuffle -- but he said nothing would happen until after next month's Budget had been debated. He said: "That's primarily because we're going straight into a Budget and dealing with the Budget at Senate level is difficult.'' And he declined to predict what changes might be made in the ranks of the five UBP Senators currently sitting in the Upper House. They are Senate Leader Lynda Milligan-Whyte, Community Affairs Minister Yvette Swan, UBP chairman Sen. Gary Pitman, Sen. Lawrence Scott and Sen. Noela Haycock. But Dr. Saul said: "There is nothing imminent and I am not forecasting anything.'' Yesterday's Cabinet shuffle saw UBP veteran Mr. Woolridge replace Leonard Gibbons at Works and Engineering, Dr. Terceira appointed to Health and Social Services in place of Harry Soares and Tim Smith passing the Youth and Sport portfolio to Dr. Dyer. The three new Ministers, with Trevor Moniz and Ann Cartwright DeCouto, campaigned for a `no' vote in ex-Premier Sir John Swan's 1995 Independence Referendum. And they split the party in 1996, voting with the Opposition Progressive Labour Party to ban fast food franchises with a foreign flavour. The rebels also voted with the PLP in a motion of censure over Dr. Saul's role in the original decision to allow Grape Bay Ltd., which included Sir John and UBP backbencher Maxwell Burgess, to open a McDonald's franchise on the Island. The new Ministers were yesterday sworn in to their new roles by Governor Lord Waddington at Government House. Of the Ministers sidelined to make way for the rebels-turned-loyalists, only Mr. Smith turned up at the ceremony. Dr. Saul welcomed the three to the Cabinet -- and paid tribute to the three dropped from the centre of power. He said: "All three, I welcome them aboard. I look forward to working closely with them and -- as we move towards the year 2000 -- we will be doing an excellent job.''

2 Shuffle focus: Page 2 Cabinet shuffle And Dr. Saul paid tribute to three ex-Ministers moving out to the backbenches.

He said: "I acknowledge the extreme debt of gratitude, and indeed thanks, to the individuals I will comment on.

He added that Mr. Gibbons had done a "yeoman's job'', he thanked Mr. Soares for not only offering to step down but suggesting his successor and said Tim Smith had done "an excellent job and was held in high respect'' by his staff, the youth and sporting organisations of Bermuda.

But Dr. Saul denied he was showing weakness by shedding loyalists to bring in members of the rebel grouping.

He said: "For more than 20 years the policy of inclusion has been the strength of the UBP.'' And he pointed out that when Sir David Gibbons' formed a Government in the 1970s, there were rebels and he included them in his Cabinet.

Dr. Saul said: "People have different opinions -- we will build these opinions into Cabinet decision-making.

"I don't look backwards, I look forward. In this life there are things worth worrying about and things which are not worth worrying about.

"At the top of my list is Bermuda, its economy, its future and I keep that paramount in all of my lists of things to concern myself with.

"My whole approach is to ask what is in Bermuda's best interests, current Bermudians, current voters, those who are young and those who are yet unborn.'' And he said: "I'm quite sure there will be a soft landing and thereafter a first class take-off by my three new Ministers.'' FRIENDS AGAIN -- Premier David Saul, second right, welcomes former rebel MPs Clarence Terceira, David Dyer and C.V. (Jim) Woolridge into the Cabinet yesterday at Government House.