Former director of planning Erwin Adderley, was shadow Minister of Transport and Works and Engineering in the last parliament. He was also Transport Minister for six months in 1998 before the United Bermuda Party lost the election.

He retired as Director of Planning in 1994 after 22 years in the post to set up his own company, Erwin P. Adderley and Associates.

Educated at Central Elementary School and Berkeley Institute, he attended Montclair High School, the University of Nebraska and University of British Columbia. He holds degrees in Architecture and City and Regional Planning.

In 1967 he joined the Old Man River Regional Planning Department in Alberta, Canada, and was promoted to director in 1970, returning to Bermuda in 1972 to become director of planning.

He was elected to the House of Assembly for Pembroke West in a by-election in 1997.

A former ex-officio member of the West End Development Corporation and member of the Land Valuation Appeals Tribunal, he is married to Nathalie.

Community activist and educator Neletha (Honey) Butterfield entered parliament in 1998 as Progressive Labour Party MP for Pembroke West Central and was appointed Minister Without Portfolio last year.

A single mother of three, she founded the computer school and alternative learning centre Children and Adults Reaching for Education (CARE) in 1983.

A computer consultant and former computer lecturer for the Government Community School, she also taught computers, English and mathematics at Bermuda College, and was an instructor at the education department of Bermuda Correctional Facilities.

She was voted Bermudian of the Year in 1988 and was given the Community Service Award from Bermuda Business and Professional Women's Club for her involvement in the Kiwanis Club.

She has also been given a Best of Bermuda Gold Award for outstanding work as an educator, and last year the Bermuda chapter of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs gave her its highest honour, the Sojourner Truth Award.

A former trustee of St. Paul AME Church, her professional speaking engagements have taken her to Washington, California and Jamaica.

Environmental activist Stuart Hayward was Bermuda's first and only independent MP, representing Pembroke West Central between 1989 and 1993, and he is again running as an independent.

The son of schoolteacher Mary Jackson Hayward and celebrated jazz pianist Lance Hayward, he has been an environmental campaigner for nearly 40 years, spearheading the campaign to save Admiralty Park for the people of Bermuda.

He co-wrote the book 'Bermuda's Delicate Balance', which resulted in Bermuda National Trust awarding him an honorary life membership, and he has lectured at Bermuda Biological Station for Research.

An instructor in transcendental meditation, Mr. Hayward was director of the Parent Effectiveness Training Association of Bermuda.

He left Bermuda in 1994 after losing the election and earned a Masters degree of Science in Environmental Studies at Antioch New England Graduate School. He then spent two years at the college as a Diversity Advocate and adjunct faculty member.

Mr. Hayward has written opinion columns since the 1970s for the Bermuda Sun, Bermudian magazine and Mid-Ocean News, writing almost exclusively for the Sun since returning to Bermuda.

He also helped set up the Bermuda Leadership Forum.