who will act as its voice in the Senate.

Cutting their political teeth in the Lower House will be accountants Ms Neletha (Honey) Butterfield, Mr. Terry Lister and teacher Mr. Milton Scott.

The three were unanimously chosen at a special central committee meeting last Friday night.

They, as the still-to-be-named Government and independent senators, are to be officially appointed by the Governor.

And last night no one contacted was willing to comment on the PLP choice.

Mr. Scott, who was chosen as Opposition Senate leader to replace newly-elected MP Mr. Alex Scott, declined to comment, explaining that he did not want to pre-empt comments to be made at a PLP Press conference this afternoon.

The 38-year-old PLP campaign co-chairman was the party's secretary general in the 1980s.

A psychometrist, who has been working in the education field for the past 15 years, Mr. Scott is also actively involved with the teachers union.

He was chosen as its organiser in 1988.

Mr. Lister, who is also involved in education as the chairman of the Berkeley Institute's Board of Governors, was unsuccessful in gaining a seat in the House of Assembly as a representative of Southampton West.

But, the PLP newcomer who threw his hat into the race less than a month before the election, earned 20 percent of the 1,387 votes cast in that constituency.

Mr. Lister -- a partner in Deloitte and Touche, returned to Bermuda in 1980 after working for three years with Price Waterhouse in Toronto.

He started his own accounting firm. But in 1982 he joined Rawlinson and Hunter, now operating as Deloitte and Touche.

In addition to being director of Bermuda Aviation Services and BF&M, Mr.

Lister is a trustee of the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, and a Sunday School superintendent and treasurer at his church.

Ms Butterfield, 39, ran in Pembroke West Central where she also lost but secured 20 percent of the 1,437 votes cast.

The operator of a Christian computer school in her Pembroke home focussed on issues concerning single parents, the elderly, and youngsters, particularly those between the age of 10 and 15, in her campaign.

Former Government Senate leader the Hon. Michael Winfield said because none of the newly appointed senators had been in Parliament before, it would be difficult to judge them.

But he added that he was confident that the Premier would choose a high-level team of Government senators.

Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan is expected to name Government senators this week.

And former Senate leader the Hon. Albert Jackson, who admitted that he would be interested in returning to the post if asked, said he expected "a greater deal of concern'' for the issues that come before the next Senate.

Noting that some of the senators in the last sitting of the Upper House were running for election to the House of Assembly, he said: "Some of the cross fire was more concern with digging at one another's party rather than dealing with issues of Government''.

Mr. Ira Philip was not chosen by the PLP to keep his Senate seat. The other outgoing PLP senators are Mr. Trevor Woolridge and Mr. Alex Scott -- both who were elected to the House last week.