Parliamentary Association conference in the Cayman Islands this week.

Mr. Bascome will be accompanied to Grand Cayman by Speaker of the House of Assembly Stanley Lowe, and backbenchers Dale Butler and Neletha Butterfield.

Clerk to the House Muriel Roach will accompany the team.

Mr. Bascome will address the conference on the topic "Transition to the new Millennium -- Challenges for State, Bureaucracy, and People''.

The conference's theme this year is "The New Millennium -- Opportunity for Change''.

Mr. Butler has expressed an interest in speaking on the topic "How can Social, Economic, Political, and Parliamentary programmes involve young people in Development?''.

Mrs. Butterfield has been invited to attend as a member of the executive committee for the region.

Commonwealth countries as diverse as Canada, Belize and Guyana, and all of the English speaking islands of the Caribbean will attend.

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