follow their example.

That is the view of Independent MP Mr. Stuart Hayward who believes the country needs more pride in its great statesmen and women.

Mr. Hayward made suggestions like Dr. E.F. Gordon, Sir Henry Tucker, W.E.R.

Joell and his father, Mr. Lance Hayward.

He said: "This small country has produced some incredible people and worked as a nurturing ground for those who may not have made good in their own home.

"As a colony, Britain tended to devalue the importance of indigenous people.

It was an attitude that we tended to continue, to devalue ourselves.

"It would not hurt to look at members of our community in a positive light as a way of developing and encouraging more pride in out community.'' Mr. Hayward said that the only real "monuments'' were buildings named after businessmen like the DeCouto and Dunstan Building and the John Swan Building.

He said: "In the United States they have monuments to the statesmen who have served their country and the same in England.

"We have a number of people in Bermuda who have contributed to labour affairs like Dr. Gordon and Sir Henry Tucker. These are people who have contributed in the community who young people can view as targets for their own aspirations.

"Not every child can aspire to excellence in the commercial field but there should be monuments to those not so ordinary people in relatively ordinary fields.'' The Independent MP believes that monuments should not be built to the living although he believes that headmaster Mr. Dale Butler and historian Dr. Eva Hodgson should have monuments in the future.

He said: "There are different ideas like Bermuda's equivalent of Mount Rushmore, pictures painted on buildings, statues or iron busts in Victoria Park.

"We need something so that young people growing up in our community can have these faces and monuments to see who went before them.'' MR. STUART HAYWARD MP -- Believes the Country needs more pride in its great statesmen and women.