Tim Smith is a former Education Minister who admits he would be interested in that Ministry again if the United Bermuda Party was returned to office.

"I'd be delighted to get back there and finish the work I started," said Mr. Smith who held the post from May to November, 1998 when his party was ousted from power.

Mr. Smith, married to Sue and the father of two daughters, Morgan, six, and Lauren, two, believes "education is about the future".

"If we don't offer a strong educational foundation for our children we are going to see the implications of that later," he said.

Mr. Smith was first elected to the House of Assembly in Paget West in 1993 when he finished second in the polls to Harry Soares. He and running mate Madeline Joell held onto the two seats in the 1998 Election as his party lost power.

He attended Paget Primary and Warwick Academy and then went off to the University of Richmond in Virginia where he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Currently he is the chief executive of AF Smith, the family owned office supply company.

Mr. Smith has served on the executive of Keep Bermuda Beautiful and Bermuda National Trust and has also served the Bermuda Human Resource Association and Bermuda Debate Society.

"I'm still active with the Bermuda Debate Society as vice president," he revealed.

Ren?e Webb has a reputation of being a straight talking politician who isn't afraid to speak her mind.

That, she feels, works in her favour, even though she has become one of Bermuda's most controversial politicians since she entered the fray in 1993.

"I find people admire it," she said. "Never in canvassing have I had somebody say to me that they don't like the way I respond. It's always the opposite, 'oh, I'm so glad to see you, I've seen you on television and I like the way you say what you think'. That's actually a plus for a politician.

"People always know how I feel and where I come from. They don't have to worry about what I'm thinking because I'm not going to say one thing and do another."

The Minister of Tourism and Telecommunications earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Studies from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada and has a Master of Arts in International Affairs.

She completed Post Graduate studies in Humanitarian Law at the Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and has a degree in French Language and Civilisation from the Sorbonne in Paris. She received her Doctorate in Humane Letters in 1999.

Ms Webb has studied international taxation and the US tax systems at the Tax Institute in New York. She worked for the Bank of Butterfield, marketing its financial services internationally. She also represented Bermuda at Commonwealth Parliamentary Association conferences in Sri Lanka where she was elected the regional representative of the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians for the Atlantic, Caribbean and Americans. She served in that position for three years.

Ms. Webb plays golf and writes poetry in her spare time and is the mother of eight-year-old Tiara.