correspondent, Raymond Russell.

In this letter Mr. Russell seeks to cast the late John Dr. Stubbs as anti-black with respect to education. He quotes out-of-context portions of a speech and is unable to understand the usage of the word `discriminate' as used by Dr. Stubbs.

Mr. Russell then proceeds to malign Dr. Stubbs. I have searched my memory and cannot discover the process by which Dr. Stubbs destroyed Howard Academy, which closed in 1965 but was known to be on its way out well before Dr. Stubbs returned to Bermuda (in October 1964 to practise surgery) and became chairman of the UBP relatively soon after.

Even if he had the will, he had not the time to do in the school. The misused quote by Mr. Russell was, in effect, an outline of Dr. Stubbs' view as how the matter of race relations must be met.

I would not wish to bore your readers by telling them of the money and effort Dr. Stubbs spent on trying to make Bermudians one people. This is his real legacy.

I think your correspondent's writings should be based on fact rather than a reckless pursuit of his private agenda.

ESD RATTERARY City of Hamilton Off in another world May 31, 1999 Dear Sir, The other night I was sitting on my porch and a Martian appeared.

We got to talking and he told me it was his first trip to Earth and that he had been observing Bermuda. One of the many questions he had was "what is a racist?'' I then asked him what he thought a racist was and his reply was: "Anyone who refutes the constant flow of garbage coming out of another person's mouth.'' I laughed and then explained the true definition to him. We agreed that it was a problem that needed to be straightened out. He then went on to say that "when all the doors are firmly open it will come down to test scores to see who gets the job.'' R2D2 City of Hamilton Time for a Youth Corps June 23, 1999 Dear Sir, I refer to two of yesterday's Page 5 articles rightly focusing on "Retiring teachers lament student/parent divide'' and immediately followed by "Governor will honour students'' and respectfully offer the following observations: It is clear to me that the lamentable absence of parental support for so many of our young people would seem extremely unlikely to improve without the combined additional support of our community.

(Please note especially the lead article's quote "If guns were available we would have school shootings in Bermuda''.) As a consequence I would be very grateful if our entire political system could now revisit the still available opportunities for now critically urgent positive change likely to be attainable in the event that society was at last willing to actively promote a Youth Corps type of programme embracing (for example) the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme "which encourages responsibility, self-reliance, community awareness and perseverance in young people''.

To this end, it is also important to note that even young people who have already run afoul of the law are nevertheless capable of significantly benefiting from such a wholly positive programme as well (remember June 17th awardees from the Coed facility).

As consequence, if our political system can also now see the potentially enormous benefit of most urgently working together towards the creation of an all embracing programme of positively disciplined inclusion for as many as possible of our young people, a very great many of today's social problems would very quickly be substantially reduced.

In view of the above I invite those of your readership who agree that such an effort should at least now be made to therefore lobby their members of Parliament to create a Joint Select Committee as a matter of the utmost urgency to review the practicability of an all-embracing Youth Corps for Bermuda.

After all, it has been included in the platforms of both main political parties for many years, but regrettable to date has never gone beyond promises and apparently owing to a regrettable lack of unified commitment across the political spectrum.

In my humble opinion, the timing could never be better to at least begin the first step of "walking this walk'' rather than simply continue the apparently purely rhetorical "talking the talk'' so prevalent to date.

With every good wish for a significantly better future for all, I remain your sincerely.

TED GAUNTLETT Sandy's Parish Taxis on road to ruin June 22, 1999 Dear Sir, The general public, along with those of us within the taxi industry, should take great exception to the comments made by Dr. Ewart Brown the new Minister of Transport, appearing in the June 18 edition of The Royal Gazette , topic: Call for taxi unity.

We all know that the thought process starts in the head (the brain).

Therefore, how can we within the taxi industry unite when your Ministry cannot even present a full complement of the Taxi Advisory Committee to attend their meetings.

Sir, you need to clean up your own back yard first if you want to show us that those within the Taxi Advisory Committee are responsible and can make decisions for the future success of our ground-transport industry.

You among all people -- being a doctor -- know all too well that in order to make a correct and proper diagnosis of a person's ailment, one must take into consideration all factors.

Your statement "stop thinking about who may have taken a piece of the pie'', is therefore totally derogatory and out of place because such comment -- as appeared in this article -- only serves to further incite trouble, discontent, dissension, and disharmony of which breeds disunity.

You have therefore come across to us as being both insensitive and unapproachable toward both the general public and taxi drivers/owners which is blinding your vision to the simple fact.

We are crying out for help and for assistance to get a quicker and better taxi dispatch system in here.

I understand that Government needs to keep us a little confused or else why have a Government. However, the UBP did this to us during their 30-year tenure.

It is now time to get on with the technology changes needed to take us into the year 2001 and for you (the Minister) to stop playing the devil's advocate and playing the middle against the end.

Yes! There is a great deal of divisiveness within the taxi industry and we do fight amongst ourselves. Why! Because there is no leadership within the industry. Therefore the root cause of the fragmentation you allude to in that article.

Your comments in that article are therefore argumentative at best and not the quality of a good leader. You knew this about the taxi industry before you attended this meeting. You also knew that the previous Government showed both bad judgment and leadership toward the taxi industry.

Under their type of leadership, if things did not go backward for the taxi industry, nothing was going to work.

By denying the taxi driver/owners the right to progress, the UBP was able to give the permission for a new limousine service at the Airport; along with the Mini-Bus Services in Somerset, Hamilton and St. George.

Now, you are using the same ploy to bring about the entrance of the two-seater electric car and the fast ferries, (taking) advantage of the situation and taking more income from an already dying taxi industry.

We are therefore left to believe that you know that once the industry is computerised it would create the type of unity within the industry you and the public are looking for. Because computers have proven to be a better business, management and marketing tool.

When is your Government going to stop dragging your feet in this matter and give us what you promised us in your Throne Speech `a new central computerised taxi dispatch system'? These systems take four to six months to install once the permission is given.

Have we become full circle in the way we choose to select our politicians and now we should start to import foreign expert politicians who are not biased against the taxi industry -- or do we simply need to change the Minister? LLOYD SMITH Pembroke PS: We had another taxi driver stabbed in his neck. Do we also need another tourist murdered before we get a decision to better our future within the ground transport industry? Unhappy domestic news June 27, 1999 Dear Sir, Employers of household domestic staff have a responsibility to treat their employees with all the respect they would afford to Bermuudian workers.

There are those employers who fall far short of ethical and legal responsibility.

It is clear that there is little desire within the Bermudian work force to pursue employment within the domestic field. Nonetheless, we can read with amusement the deceitful nature of advertisements placed in the Employment Section of The Royal Gazette .

The ads call for nannies, maids and gardeners to work long hours, weekends, public holidays. They must be prepared to do heavy lifting, drive, swim, be fearless of ferocious dogs and, of course, be non-smokers fluent in French and Spanish, Cantonese or Tagalog.

Resumes and references are to be sent to "Our Client'' via some office of an Attorney-at-Law. Suitably qualified locals, if they are armed with NNEB.

(Nanny School... good if you want live-in white, English girls), City & Guilds in horticulture and 5.3 years experience as a fruit farmer, may interview at daybreak should they have the audacity to apply.

Obligatory advertisements made, the employer is now free to renew the work permit for another year.

The Department of Immigration deserves to be commended for helping those whom are known to have been mistreated. The majority of domestic workers are women from poor countries and are not in position to voice their plight.

They have come to our Island to improve their life and to ease the burden of poverty for their children and families.

Employers explain to incoming domestics that they must state to Immigration that they are single and without children. Little can be done by Immigration to verify marital/parental status.

What Immigration has yet to do, in conjunction with the Human Rights Commission, is the following: Disregard the honour system and verify that each employee has a Social Security number. Some do not.

Require proof, each and every year, that the employed is insured. Many are not.

Have a look at the living quarters of the live-ins. Some live in sub-standard environs.

Require a minimum salary for these women and verify pay stubs each year before renewals. Some very wealthy people are paying extremely little for domestic help, whose pay is frozen at whatever it was when first they arrived on these fair isles.

Check out those contracts between employer and employee. The contract determines the amount of hours required in the work week. Renumeration for extra hours (extra pay or time in lieu) rarely is honoured by the employer.

Similarly, devise a way to ensure that the domestic has adequate time off.

Many are not permitted to leave the house after their working day is over.

Insist, and periodically check, that the employer never hold the worker's passport, a threatening practice all too common. Employers must also be required to provide their employees with copies of all paperwork pertaining to the employed, including a copy of the contract and pamphlets regarding the rights of workers in Bermuda. Someone employed to do one job should not be expected to fill the role of several.

Create for a domestic-specific social-worker position within the Immigration department. This person could be available to investigate injustices, including sexual harassment, and meet with each woman employed as a domestic on a quarterly basis to ensure employer/employee harmony.

The difficulty in ensuring that these guest workers are treated in a manner befitting our society is that they are not represented by anyone. Many speak little English, are purposely isolated and are intimidated by their employers.

They know all to well that one who cannot swim should not rock the boat.

So, Dear Editor, does the employer.

To any worker or friend of a domestic reading this, I urge you to keep a diary of any overtime you work, any days off you are required to miss, any trips home that are put off 'til next year.

Be diligent and keep that diary well hidden and in Cantonese (there is no requirement for your boss to respect your privacy). You can be back paid at the end of your employment, bad employers may be fined if you are not insured, and, at the very least, you may have saved a future person the same fate.

Before I sign my alias, let us remember that those fortunates with the time and means to voluntarily pursue charitable social causes may do so on the backs of indentured servants. This is not yet a "New Bermuda'' for everybody.

ROBIN HOOD Pembroke A command performance June 24, 1999 Dear Sir, The old Soviet Union used to be called a "command economy.'' What was produced was commanded by to be produced by Communist leaders. This was in contrast to the West's demand economy which supplied goods to meet the demand.

For example, the Communist leaders would command how many toothbrushes were to be produced each year and there would always be large shortages or surpluses.

This was inefficient and rendered the economy unviable in the long run.

Bermuda now has demand of all types in the many services which people provide.

Construction, electrical plumbing, you name it. Employers who don't increase wages are losing employees to firms which will pay more.

One service industry in Bermuda that does pay more is the financial service industry. Qualified lawyers, MBA's, CPA's CFA;s, actuaries are not in unemployment lines, regardless of their colour.

There is an issue about corporate spirit towards Bermudianisation which should be approached through moral suasion. However, the only real commands necessary in this economy are those of sound primary, secondary and further evocation.

BRIAN WAY Paget