Further live televised "dialogues'' on the thorny question of race in Bermuda are planned following the success of the one held last week.

Co-organiser Cris Valdes Dapena confirmed that at least one future televised discussion will take place because there are still many issues which have not been fully thrashed out.

A panel of eight people took part in the 90-minute discussion on ZBM last Tuesday and they meet again tomorrow to assess the programme and plan how to take it forward.

Mrs. Valdes Dapena, the president of the Chamber of Commerce, told The Royal Gazette : "It is virtually certain there will be another because there is so much demand for it.

"The group who were involved in it will be meeting on Thursday evening to discuss what will happen next and under whose auspices. That there will be at least one follow up programme is pretty much a given.

"What people have told me is that there were a number of questions raised that need to be pursued in more detail.

"It has got a lot of people thinking, often in ways they have not been accustomed to. And it introduced people to points of view that haven't necessarily been part of their thinking before. It's got people talking to each other which is what we were hoping to do.'' The panelists will be discussing the messages at their meeting tomorrow night.

The panelists were Mrs. Valdes Dapena, fellow organiser and community activist Rolfe Commissiong, business people Charles Gosling and Arlene Brock, retired banker Cummings Zuill, Education officer Llewellyn Simmons, lawyer Ian Kawaley and former Bermuda Sun Editor Tom Vesey.

Excerpts from the TV show -- A Dialogue in Black in White -- are published in today's Royal Gazette beginning on Page 24.

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