A political row has broken out over the decision to close the airport's Visitor's Service Bureau. The information booth shut down on January 1 to make way for building work in the baggage hall as part of the airport's regeneration scheme. ---- Page 3 COMMISSIONER'S HOUSE BOOST MUS Commissioner's House boost The Royal Naval Dockyard's flagship building is to be made shipshape by next year -- with a $5 million refit. The Commissioner's House is on course to be opened as the showcase headquarters of the Bermuda Maritime Museum by the end of 1999. ---- Page 5 STUDENT REMANDED IN CUSTODY CRM BDA Student remanded in custody A Bermudian student facing charges of carjacking and armed robbery in the US was yesterday remanded in custody pending a further appearance later this month. Wolde Place, 19, appeared for a preliminary hearing at Fulton County Magistrates' Court in Atlanta, Georgia.

---- Page 5 RECEIVERSHIP BID STALLED BUC CTS Receivership bid stalled Joint liquidators of Electric Mutual Liability Insurance Co. (EMLICO) have interrupted the move to put EMLICO into US receivership, by petitioning to have a case involving the controversial insurer heard in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. ---- Business, Page 9 LIGHTBOURNE ON THE MOVE SOC Lightbourne on the move Coventry City's Bermudian striker Kyle Lightbourne will take a two-hour drive to London today to join Fulham on loan for one month. ---- Sport, Page 17 PAIR OFF TO `SATISFACTORY' START SW Pair off to `satisfactory' start Bermuda's two-man swim team got off to a "satisfactory'' start as the eighth World Swimming Championships opened yesterday in Perth, Australia. ---- Sport, Page 17