Tomorrow The Royal Gazette will mark Sunshine Week by bringing our readers some bright news: for that day, the paper will cost just 25 cents.

We'll also bring you details of a competition you can enter to highlight what freedom of information means to you and two of our most prominent politicians will be writing about why they support freedom of information legislation in Bermuda.

Former Premier Alex Scott says in his column: "Over time the freedom to pursue and receive information from its government has seen community after community accept the practice and the government that supports a policy of openness as a show of good faith.

"The result is that the media and public use PATI to confirm and clarify government pronouncements as opposed to using it as a tool to confront and confound their respective parliaments and parliamentarians."

And John Barritt JP, MP, United Bermuda Party House Leader and Shadow Minister for Legislative Reform, says in his column: "The freedom of information campaign underway in Bermuda today is about extending people's need to know to the realm of government. It's about giving the average citizen, that's you, the means to find out about government actions and decisions. It's about injecting a level of public scrutiny into the system that can exert a restraining influence on decisions that otherwise might be unjust or harmful."