week.

The December issue, free with tomorrrow's edition of The Royal Gazette , includes an in-depth look at the situation by the magazine's senior writer Elizabeth Harvey in `No Place To Go'.

Ms Harvey spent several nights on the streets talking to the homeless and those who work with them trying to provide food and shelter. And she discovered that the profile of the homeless population is changing.

As Calvin Ming, coordinator for social services at the Salvation Army, tells RG : "The homeless population is getting larger; the population that can no longer maintain its economic status is growing larger; the institutional population is growing larger; the population that maintains a lifestyle of drug and alcohol abuse is getting larger and the age is getting younger.'' `No Place To Go' is a disturbing comment on modern Bermuda, where the economic gulf between the haves and have-nots seems to grow wider by the day.

Being December, RG devotes much of the rest of its pages to the Christmas spirit. There is a free 12-page pullout Christmas Gift Guide to help you find the perfect present for that hard-to-please friend or relative and to fit your budget plus a special feature on Bermudian-made gifts and where to buy them.

So don't forget to pick up your December RG Magazine wherever you buy your Royal Gazette .