Bermuda for their annual conference. But women are playing an important role at the high-level meeting, including Botswana's Tuelanyana Ditlhabi Oliphant.

---- Page 2 GALLERY CELEBRATES COMMUNITY CLB ART Gallery celebrates community The Bermuda National Gallery has a duty to reflect the diversity of the community it serves -- and the acquisition of several pieces of African art is an important step in that process, the Gallery's director Laura Gorham said yesterday. ---- Page 5 CHARITIES WIN BIG IN RACE SLG Charities win big in race The largest amount of prize money ever offered will be up for grabs in the Bank of Butterfield's 1996 Gold Cup Charity Race. Six crews representing different charities will vie for more than $30,000 in the October 10 race.

---- Page 7 SIMPSON STARTS TRAINING CRI Simpson starts training After a highly successful decade as Australia's Test cricket coach, Bob Simpson has brought his cricketing expertise to Bermuda. But it will be the Bermuda way, not the Austrlain way, that the coach wants to develop. ---- Sport, Page 11 BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY LIV POL AWD Beyond the call of duty A local Policewoman recently received an international award for her constant and selfless work to make this island a safer and better place. ------ Living, Page 23 FABULOUS FESTIVAL LINE-UP LIV THR Fabulous festival line-up Jazz, dance, Shakespeare or story-telling. Whatever your taste, the 1997 line-up for the Bermuda Festival will have something to please everyone.

------ Living, Page 23 EMILOC FACING NEW PROBE BUC CTS EMLICO facing new probe Electric Mutual Liability Insurance Company, a firm under liquidation in Bermuda, can now expect to face a probe by US federal prosecutors. ---- Business, Page 29