LOBBYING FOR EASIER ACCESS CON IMM Lobbying for easier access LONDON -- The PLP yesterday used its "special relationship'' with Britain's Labour Party Government to lobby for easier access to the UK by Bermudians. ---- Page 3 `WAIT AND SEE' POSITION CON IMM `Wait and see' position Bermuda's business world was this week taking a `wait and see' position over a UK offer of full British citizenship for the Dependent Territories. ---- Page 3 HEARTBREAK FOR DEBATE TEAM CPN Heartbreak for debate team Bermuda's debating team yesterday was disappointed at not reaching the quarter finals of the International Debating Championships despite its best showing ever. ---- Page 5 BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM TO OPEN MUS Black History Museum to open Bermuda will open its first Black History Museum in March after years of planning and collecting. Joy Wilson Tucker of the Bermuda Heritage Association said the group will open the museum at the Water Street, St. George's site on March 8. ---- Page 6 NO HELP ON SURVEY SUR GVT No help on survey Government has been forced to back off on attempts to learn more about the racial make-up of Island athletes. Sports groups say they will refuse to answer parts of a Sports Ministry survey seeking information on their overall membership -- its racial, gender and native composition. ---- Sport, Page 13 DAD JOINS SON AT OLYMPICS OLY LUG Dad joins son at Olympics As the biggest day of his life nears, Patrick Singleton this week got a lift from one of his strongest backers. His dad. Derek Singleton, joined by BOA team manager John Hoskins, arrived in Nagano, Japan, on Sunday to help see his son through the pressures of his first Winter Olympics. ---- Sport, Page 13 EL NINO COULD HELP REINSURERS BUC El Nino could help reinsurers Salvation may be at hand for reinsurers who have long complained of declining rates. Many reinsurance executives expect that it will take a catastrophic event, or a series of them, to cause increased demand and a check on low rates. ----Business, Page 28 GREEN RETIRES FROM STARR EXCESS BUC Green retires from Starr Excess The fall-out has begun from last week's announced buy-out by American International Group (AIG) of Bermuda-based SELIC Holdings Ltd., the parent to Starr Excess Liability Insurance Co., Ltd. Starr Excess Senior vice president, marketing, Clinton N. Greene, is no longer with the firm. ----Business, Page 28