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Deal with 'stuff on your plate', PLP told

Sermon: Guest preacher at the morning service at Allen Temple AME Church, Rev. Dr. Colin Lambert is shown with Premier Paula Cox after his straight from the shoulder sermon "pepping up" the ruling party.

The leadership of the ruling Bermuda Progressive Labour Party took over the Willow Bank Resort in Somerset this past weekend for their annual strategising retreat.Programmed for time-out from the many lunch and dinner meetings was attendance at the morning worship service at the nearby Allen Temple AME Church.Party Leader and Premier Paula Cox, accompanied by chairman Antony Santucci, several MPs and Senators, other party executives and rank and file, attended the service.By coincidence the guest preacher at the service was Bermudian-born Rev. Dr. Colin Lambert, pastor of Trinity AME Church in Baltimore, Maryland. He was in the island for the funeral of his aunt the late Mrs. Helen Lambert.He told the leadership that even though he has spent the last 39 year away from the epicenter of Bermuda's political and social affairs, he was aware that the PLP has on its plate, what he called “some stuff.”While they did not put it there, they had to take courage and deal with it, particularly regarding housing, the educational system and the displacement of trained third, fourth generation and fifth Bermudians from jobs going to other people.Straight from his broad shoulders, Dr. Lambert voiced his pride over the accomplishments of the PLP in gaining the country's government. He urged them to let nothing stop them from turning Bermuda upside down if necessary, inside out and right side up getting the Island on the right track for its people.