polls on Tuesday, October 5, The Royal Gazette understands.

The move to dissolve Parliament comes one day after the Hon. Sir John Swan unfolded a blueprint and asked Bermudians for another chance to build.

"For me to call an election, I have to tell the public why I'm calling an election,'' Sir John said at a news conference. "A part of why I'm calling an election is in this blueprint.'' He stopped short of announcing a date for the election, but it is understood he will do that this afternoon. Most pundits expected a Thursday vote, but sources said yesterday it would be on Tuesday, October 5 -- the earliest possible date.

The UBP's "Blueprint for Bermuda's Future'' -- carried as a paid insert in The Royal Gazette today -- is "a document that spells out how we in the United Bermuda Party plan to run this country after this election,'' the Premier said.

It includes 110 promises in nine policy areas. "You can hold us accountable for it,'' Sir John said.

The blueprint marks a departure. The Progressive Labour Party publishes a detailed campaign platform each year, but it has not been a practice of the UBP.

But Sir John, Premier for more than a decade, said his aim in January of 1982 was "to raise the standard of living for all people'' in Bermuda, and "we had a blueprint then.'' Health, education, and housing had been improved since then, he said. The Tynes Bay incinerator would remove "the scar'' of the Pembroke Dump, and the new $40-million prison would replace "the anachronism'' of Casemates.

"It is so out of touch with the realities of Bermuda...that any young person, or any person going to Casemates for any reason in this country most likely didn't stand a chance of coming back out and rehabilitating themselves,'' Sir John said.

"I as your leader will ask you to give me another chance to carry on the work that needs to be done if Bermuda is to reach the 21st century.'' Opposition Leader Mr. Frederick Wade said he had not yet seen the blueprint and had no comment. "We will be looking at it and we will be studying it,'' Mr. Wade said of the PLP.

Pledges in the document include increased training and retraining, a national pension plan, an Employment Code, a closer link between issuing work permits and training of Bermudians, increased open space, sale of Government housing to private owners, establishment of a Family Court, greater youth involvement in decision-making, a 50 percent hike in visitors from Europe, and a National Education Foundation to assure all qualified students can attend post-secondary schools.

OCTOBER 1993 ELECTION