like to see our leaders achieve for Bermuda. Everyone's list will be somewhat different and some lists will be very long but most Bermudians will have the same basic list.

Firstly, we think Parliamentarians should set a higher tone and better standards for Bermudians.

Members of Parliament and Senators are role models, especially for younger Bermudians. In recent years they have been leaders in dividing Bermudians, in confrontation rather than debate and in using their high positions to degrade other Bermudians. It was never intended that a democratically elected Parliament should be so used.

Bermuda is too small for constant conflict and too delicately balanced for these things not to have an unhealthy result outside Parliament.

Clearly we would all like to see Parliament, especially during the debate on the Budget, have thoughtful and constructive input on tourism. Tourism feeds us all and it cannot be successfully revived without the help of all local residents and the standard for that help can be set in Parliament. Tearing down those who are working hard to provide us all with a good living from visitors is not the answer. There are many aspects of the visitor's experience in Bermuda which can be improved and Parliament must set the standard for those improvements. If statements are made which are destructive of the tourism structure then it is unreasonable to expect the people to meet the challenges. It took many years to develop tourism as a very lucrative industry but it can be badly damaged in a very short time.

The structure of Government itself and what the public perceives as Government waste and extravagance should be debated with a view to improvements remembering always that the people's perceptions are very important.

There is need to take a constructive look at a new philosophy of public transportation and how we move both locals and visitors about the Island.

Right now our thinking is archaic and not very effective. Visitors who stay in their hotels are not very productive visitors. We were very appreciative recently when the hard-working Minister of Tourism said that he was very concerned about transportation. Forty heads are better than one and we hope that Members of Parliament will make constructive suggestions for new methods.

Now that the new education system is going ahead and Bermuda is locked into an adventuresome and very expensive system it would seem to be wise for Parliament to give the system support to make it work. This system is going to produce the hope for tomorrow and we owe them the best we can give them. The new system will need time to prove itself and, doubtless, it will take adjustment but let us not damage it beyond repair before it can even begin to develop.

Most importantly, all Parliamentarians should get together to work against crime and drugs. We hope that members will finally realise that drugs and the high percentage of crime resulting from drugs should be above politics and weakening the Police Service is not constructive. This is a national issue which affects all our lives, not a political football.