December 17, 2002

Dear Sir,

A number of Cabinet Ministers, first among them Senator the Hon. Lt. Col. David Burch JP, should add a couple more letters after their names - BS seems appropriate. The claim that a United Bermuda Government spent $2,000,000 on travel compared to the PLP's $373,000 is blatantly false, and he knew it. A truthful comparison would have been that travel costs have doubled to well over $4,000,000 for the whole PLP Government, not just the Cabinet, as he suggested.

This election strategy of repeatedly lying to the public to falsify the PLP's record and rewrite history is more transparent than the tint on the shiny GP cars' windows:

2,000 new jobs for Bermudians weren't created, as the Premier claimed at the PLP Banquet.

Performance bonds were in place under a United Bermuda Party government, contrary to Minister Webb's falsehood.

Berkeley will be substantially behind schedule as Minister Scott has now conceded, after initially calling sceptics "fools or children".

Add another to the list. The public deserve better.

CHRISTIAN DUNLEAVY

Warwick