Leader Mr. Frederick Wade charged yesterday.

Environment Minister the Hon. Gerald Simons and Transport Minister the Hon.

Maxwell Burgess failed in their last portfolios, Mr. Wade told The Royal Gazette .

Mr. Wade also said the Hon. Sir John Swan's decision to place the Environment Minister and the Management and Technology Minister in the Senate, rather than the House of Assembly, "demonstrates the level of importance he attaches to those Ministries''.

Sir John named his 14-member Cabinet on Tuesday. Mr. Wade said he hoped to finalise his Shadow Cabinet today.

Mr. Simons, who was defeated in Warwick East on October 5 but will sit in the Senate and retain his Environment portfolio, "failed'' in his former Education portfolio and was given "an opportunity to fail again,'' Mr. Wade said.

Although it was permitted under the Constitution, it was "unfortunate'' Sir John placed Cabinet Ministers in the unelected Senate.

Mr. Burgess, who held the Youth, Sports and Recreation portfolio during the bungled boycott of the Commonwealth Games in 1986, "left much to be desired'' as a Minister before his defeat in 1989, Mr. Wade said.

"Perhaps the years for Maxwell Burgess out of Cabinet into the hustings made him a better manager,'' he said.

The thinking behind the Cabinet appointments appeared to be rewarding three men who "saved'' the United Bermuda Party Government, Mr. Wade said. They were Mr. Burgess, his Hamilton West running mate and Community and Cultural Affairs Minister the Hon. Wayne Furbert, and Human Affairs and Information Minister the Hon. Jerome Dill, who recaptured a UBP seat in Pembroke West Central.

Mr. Burgess and Mr. Furbert knocked off Progressive Labour Party incumbents Mr. Eugene Blakeney and Mr. Julian Hall.

The new Human Affairs Ministry appeared to be in conflict with the Health, Social Services and Housing Ministry, Mr. Wade said.

Mr. Dill's responsibilities would include drugs, human rights, and race relations. Those areas were bound to come into conflict.