December 5, 2012Dear Sir,So a secret report produced by a Canadian consultant was paid for by the now dead United Bermuda Party to recommend how to disband and create a new party. Mention of using young black Bermudian surrogates, having a black leader over a white one and keeping the few seasoned white Bermudian Members of Parliament in the background, but still retaining the power to manoeuvre the new party appears in the report. I am not the least bit shocked. I feel the same way if a report was found from the Progressive Labour Party coffers that suggested to eliminate the appearance of being racist instead of pro-black would be to run white PLP candidates in PLP Parliamentary strongholds, even though traditionally speaking, strongholds were only given to those who had served the Party for a long time. I would not be shocked to see mention of leadership of the PLP in terms of race and that no white Bermudian will ever hold such a position because it would be insulting to the membership.Both the PLP and the One Bermuda Alliance are doing a superb job of politicking and not attending to the needs of the Bermudian people during this election campaign. Neither the PLP nor the OBA has dropped a political platform at my door telling me what they are ‘specifically’ going to do to improve our quality of life and to get us out of this financial crisis. Granted the OBA has come up with three points of action in terms of producing jobs, alleviating crime and reducing the budget. But there are a myriad of other issues and the point of over 2,000 people being out of work has been hammered to death. Move on OBA. The PLP has a 14 year record and with the many sound initiatives they have accomplished, their fiscal track record speaks for itself, bottom line the quality of life for Bermudians has not improved.Changing the subject to the people’s business, I would like to mention child abuse and how it relates to today’s crime and the monsters that have committed heinous murders, tortures and spread fear in our small Island. Children are not born monsters. They are born beautiful, loving and happy. Health and Social Services has announced over the last two decades approximately 800 cases of reported child abuse cases. We have no nurturing, properly licensed and accredited home to place our abused children in. We have insufficient numbers of foster parents willing and able to take an abused child. Some of the abused children go to family members that are already living in dysfunctional conditions. Quite clearly, abused children in Bermuda are staying in their abuse environments. When they grow up they become the abuser and the monsters without conscience that we see before our courts.PLP and OBA, what does your party propose to do to save our vulnerable children living under abusive and neglectful conditions, other than trying to repatriate the children back to the parents who abused them in the first place?CHERYL POOLEYDevonshire