politics, the constituency's United Bermuda Party incumbents said yesterday.

The Hon. Quinton Edness and the Hon. Sir John Sharpe said at a news conference they received complaints from residents about the posters, which touted Progressive Labour Party candidates Dr. Ewart Brown and Mr. George Scott.

"A number of residents this morning brought us these posters,'' Mr. Edness said. "They were quite irate about what was being put up all over Warwick West.

"They felt this is not the way they like to do their politics.'' Mr. Edness said neighbours saw the posters, which were stapled on Belco poles in all parts of the constituency yesterday, as littering and the introduction of American-style politicking.

"We tend to agree with them that this is the kind of thing that you see in the inner cities of America and it is not the way things are done in Bermuda,'' he said.

When told of the posters, Opposition Leader Mr. Frederick Wade said "he'd take steps to make sure that this is rectified,'' PLP spokesman Ms Paula Cox said. Mr. Wade did not endorse this use of posters, she said.

A Spice Hill resident said he was awakened by a man using a stepladder to post the signs at about 5.30 a.m. Instead of putting up signs, the PLP candidates should canvass the area, he said. "They haven't come and seen the neighbourhood.'' The man would not give his name, but said he did not belong to a political party.

The posters created headaches for Belco, spokesman Ms Linda Smith told The Royal Gazette .

Anything stuck to the poles was "a hazard to the company's linemen and a potential danger to the general public,'' Ms Smith said. That was particularly true if staples were used, because they could cause linemen climbing the poles to fall, she said.

The signs were removed by Belco employees, she said. A Government spokesman was unsure whether such posting of signs was illegal.

Mr. Edness said a man erecting the signs had a foreign accent. "It sounded like the same fellow who stole the shoes the other day,'' he said. "It brings into question whether he has a work permit.'' Mr. Scott reportedly had to pay for a pair of shoes recently after a man who was distributing PLP literature went into a Warwick store and put on a pair of shoes without paying for them.

POSTER CAMPAIGN -- Warwick West residents, Belco, the United Bermuda Party, and Opposition Leader Mr. Frederick Wade were all critical of posters on electricity poles touting PLP candidates.

OCTOBER 1993 ELECTION