Former Tourism Minister Ren?e Webb says she has left a solid legacy in e-commerce, telecommunications and tourism and predicted yesterday the foundation she laid will allow Bermuda to go from strength to strength.

And she has no concerns about losing her ministerial salary following her shock resignation from Premier Alex Scott's Cabinet.

"You think I would resign if I needed a job? " Ms Webb responded when asked what her future employment plans were.

"What can you do with $2,000 (the additional take home pay she received as a Minister)? Our take home is $25,000... It ain't got nothing to do with the money."

Parliamentarians receive an annual salary of about $36,000 and double that if they serve as a Minister other than the Attorney General, the Premier and the Deputy Premier who make significantly more. "We've had to live how I've always been living and that isn't my ministerial salary. It was never about the money because we don't live on the ministerial salary, so finance isn't an issue for me and I am privileged enough to be able to live."

Ms Webb said she had received some offers but would not be considering future opportunities until next year.

In the meantime, she said, she would be devoting more time to her nine-year-old daughter and her parliamentary duties.

"I have a nine-year-old who's only known me for being a Member of Parliament so motherhood will take up time. And clearly I will relax and in 2005 I will think about what I'm going to do.

"The only thing I'm not going to do is be a Minister."

But she said she was very proud of her legacy in e-commerce, telecommunications and tourism.

"The platform has been built and we will continue to go from strength to strength."

And she would not respond to Mr. Scott's side of the story this week that she may have had a problem with strong leadership.

"The only thing I have to say is I stand by what I said ? irreconcilable differences. The support for my decision has been tremendous. It was based on principle," Ms Webb said.

"I have nothing to say in response to anything the Premier has said. If anything it indicates why I resigned. I mean, come on. 'I'm the man'?"

Asked where she was jetting off to, she said the fact that she was no longer a Minister meant that the public was not entitled to know. "It's none of anybody's business. Isn't that nice?"

Ms Webb added: "I feel very comfortable, very happy with my decision.

"I think it was in my best interest and I'm moving on. I wish the Premier and the Cabinet well."

Ms Webb resigned from the Cabinet on Tuesday afternoon ending her Ministerial career which began after the Progressive Labour Party victory in 1998. She will continue to serve as a backbencher for the ruling party after a frequently controversial tenure at the helm of the Ministries of Tourism, e-commerce and Telecommunication.

Her efforts help put Bermuda on the global e-commerce map and she has credited with building on the foundation of the late David Allen, her predecessor in the Tourism department.

"In terms of the contributions that I made, clearly I have been serving the country well. But that question will be for other people to judge, and for history to judge. I can't judge that," Ms Webb said.

"I know I was a no nonsense Minister ? one that got things done and one that delivered. I think there's widespread agreement on the fact that I did my job very well."

Asked whether she would ever serve as a Minister again she said: "Most definitely, oh yes."

But she would not say whether she would return to Mr. Scott's administration or under what conditions she would serve. And she would not comment on the state of the party, when asked.

While she admitted her decision to resign was not planned, she declined to say what triggered it.

"Everybody has to feel in sync and if you're not in sync far too often its best that you leave.

"And I think I can better serve my country outside Cabinet ? as a Parliamentarian."