possessing .24 grams of 88 percent pure crack cocaine and .4 grams of 43 percent pure heroin.

Hubert Leroy Rogers, 34, of Sound View Road, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for possessing crack and heroin on October 6, and six years for possessing the same drugs last Tuesday, pleaded guilty in Magistrates' Court.

Insp. Peter Duffy, prosecuting, told the court that Rogers was seen sitting on a motorcycle on Palmetto Road. When plain clothes officers approached him, he tried to conceal an object in the bike's handle.

Police searched both Rogers and the motorcycle handle and found a brown paper twist containing four foils that were later analysed and found to be heroin and crack.

SHIP'S ENGINEER DIES IN ENGLAND OBT A Bermudian who served aboard the Queen of Bermuda in war and peace has died in England.

Mr. Dennis T. Pitman was the electrical engineer when the cruise ship was commissioned as an armed merchant cruiser during the Second World War.

He was on the ship from the 1930s until she left the Island to be broken up in the 1960s.

Earlier, he worked as an electrical engineer during construction of the Bermuda Railway and was educated at HM Dockyard.

Born in Bermuda, he retired to London, where he died recently at age 79. He is survived by his wife Joan.

Mr. Arthur Card of Bermuda knew Mr. Pitman for 60 years and remembered him as "a jovial, outgoing type of person,'' who painted and played the piano.

KITCHEN BLAZE FIR A St. George's man's bid to prepare a meal over the weekend ended in disaster.

The 19-year-old set fire to the kitchen, and then burned himself as he battled to put out the flames.

Yesterday he was recovering in a general ward at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital.

He suffered second degree burns to his hands and feet from hot oil in a frying pan.

The incident at his Battery Road home occurred at about 8.30 a.m. on Sunday.

"There was no structural damage to his home,'' said Police spokeswoman Sgt.

Roseanda Jones. She added the man was helped by a neighbour until the emergency services arrived.

BASSETT EXHIBITION ART Artist Robert Bassett's creativity will go on display on November 13.

The exhibition at the Harbour Room of Front Street's Number One Shed will be his biggest so far. It will run from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

There will also be a special November 12 preview of Mr. Bassett's work, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Featured in the display will be 100 of Mr. Bassett's paintings, eight masks, and many prints. All will be on sale.

The show's theme, "Primitive Pulse'', is derived from African art and named after one of Mr. Bassett's paintings.