The Sustainable Development Project Team Leader said their final blueprint will focus all local activists ? whether they be social, economic or environmental in the same direction.

Ross Andrews ? who was appointed to the Central Policy Unit in January, as an advisor to Director Warren Jones ? said a recent Government Notice seeking a new Director of Sustainable Development will enable someone to carry on in his footsteps when he leaves the Island.

"My contract will end in January," Mr. Andrews said yesterday. "We need someone to follow up the Sustainable Development programme."

He said there was a lot of cynicism from the public that the Sustainable Development Strategy and Action Plan (SDSAP) would be another report to sit on a shelf, which was why it was important for Government, Cabinet and the public to see the SDSAP being handed to someone else to implement.

"We need to have someone with weight and clout in the centre of Government," he said ? hence the $115,164 per year salary and minimum of ten year's experience in business services or public administration.

Mr. Andrews advised potential applicants that it is a fascinating role which gives the opportunity to have a significant impact.

"What's needed is perseverance and a broad understanding of all of the issues that affect the future of Bermuda, economic, social and environmental," he said. "Sustainable Development is common sense."

Government was split in several Ministries in order for it to make different decisions on different areas of life, he said.

"Which makes it difficult to make a holistic decision," he said. "Cruise ships are the perfect example of a sustainable development problem."

He said there were a number of different solutions to the cruise ship problem, however, the option different people chose depended on what the person found most important ? whether it be the economy, society, or the environment.

"But we must try to come up with winning solutions in both categories," he explained.

The current state of the Sustainable Development Project was that the draft SDSAP was 75 percent complete ? and was before the Roundtable.

Then the draft would go before Cabinet for consultation and finally, a draft issue will be published for public consultation.

"There is no such thing as a final SDSAP," he said. "It is a photograph of time."

He said his team has chosen the five man issues at present but it was always up to the public to decide which remained a focus of interest.