towards lawbreakers, drugs and crime while offering sensitive social programmes for women, the elderly, children and young people.

The most important proposal is a "new kind of partnership with the private sector'' involving the creation of The Bermuda Tourism Authority. The Authority will clearly supplant the Ministry of Tourism since it will be a "private-public partnership that shares the financing, marketing, staffing, positioning and decision-making for all aspects of the industry''. This appears to be a move to a non-Civil Service and professional tourism organisation which so many people have been asking for.

This is a major step because it says that Government recognises that tourism has to be a community project with input from people throughout the economy.

It seems likely that Monitor has led Government toward this decision. It will allow for staffing outside the restrictive realm of the Civil Service.

The most controversial plan is likely to be the one committed to achieving "a more effective partnership between trade unions and employers''. Many people in the private sector fear that this will lead to the unionisation of management, at least at the middle level. Government says that too often disputes have had their origin in recognition issues. We believe the private sector will fight these measures and fight hard because they had come to believe that Labour Minister Quinton Edness had backed off the plan.

Among the more urgent plans, given the chaos on the roads, is likely to be roadside testing for both alcohol and drugs. But that is only a part of a complex plan to improve safety on the roads which includes tougher road penalties, speed-detection cameras, increased penalties for unlicensed vehicles and impaired driving. All of the road and transport issues will be placed under a new Transportation Authority to develop an integrated and comprehensive transportation plan.

The statement that "this Government stands proudly on its record of protecting the environment'' has to have been written before the Equestrian Centre Vesey Street blunder but will, none the less, give many people a good laugh.

Given the disarray following the departure of Police Commissioner Colin Coxall, one other statement will perplex a great many people, "Operation Cleansweep is just the beginning.''