Premier Alex Scott said Monday?s Court Street shooting won?t deter Government from proceeding with plans to pump money into the area as part of an effort to revitalise the area and make it a tourist destination.

Mr. Scott, who is in Hawaii this week attending the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc.?s annual conference, said when he got the news of the shooting early on Monday he thought about cutting short his trip but was assured by Acting Premier Randy Horton, who is Minister of Public Safety, that everything was under control.

?One shooting does not a catastrophe make,? he said. ?One incident is too many but it does not undo the total product.?

And he said the incident needed to be weighed against the bigger picture, with violent incidents in Bermuda at a six-year low.

The shooting, in the early hours of Monday, injured a woman and two men at the Swinging Doors nightclub. The gunman was yesterday being searched for by the Police.

In this year?s Budget, Government said the Department of Tourism was helping to sponsor a plan to turn ?an area of Court Street into Bermuda?s ?French Quarter? thereby economically empowering Bermudians and providing a novel product offering for our visitor?.

And this week Mr. Scott said the violence may spur on Government?s plans to spend on the area.

?While we are here (in Hawaii) talking about insurance and reinsurance, tourism is still the employer. It touches more lives directly,? he said. ?It is full speed ahead with (Court Street?s) revitalisation; this doesn?t change any of our plans.?