Government of reneging on a pledge to protect the waters and natural beauty of Castle Harbour.

Mr. Roberts said Government had promised that the area, which includes the untouched Castle islands chain, would be taken care of.

Reading from a front page article in Wednesday's Royal Gazette , Mr. Roberts said there were cases of cars being dumped, oil still inside their tanks, with their tires attached and often with their batteries.

He said the contractor was unable to fulfil the contract in every detail because he did not receive planning permission.

Mr. Roberts said a story in the following day's paper contained further details about the contractor's woes.

"We in Bermuda are concerned about the environment,'' he said. "This Government said the site would be cared for.'' Mr. Roberts said that while the contractor was unable to complete his duties fully, untold damage to the environment was occurring and it all needed to be rectified.

But Works Minister the Hon. Leonard Gibbons said the reporter who wrote the article in The Royal Gazette had made no attempt to contact him and had instead spoken to a civil servant who "unfortunately made statements he shouldn't have''.

He said the contractor's problems were not with his Ministry but with the Development Applications Board.

Mr. Gibbons said that all cars that came from garages had their fuel tanks emptied, and their battery removed, but there was always a little oil leakage when a car was dumped.

Mr. Gibbons also hit back at claims by Mr. Roberts that work at the senior secondary school at Prospect was proceeding without the necessary supervision.

Mr. Roberts claimed there were no structural or electrical engineers on the site and that there are now moves to bring in replacements from abroad.

Mr. Gibbons said the situation was hardly as bad as Mr. Roberts was alleging.

He said the Ministry was looking for a chief engineer because the present one has decided not to continue. The structural engineer had given notice while the electrical engineer had moved on to a different area.

Furthermore, he said it takes a while to get a foundation in place.

Shadow Health and Social Services Minister Mr. Nelson Bascome said Government was not doing much to address the issue of overburdened social workers.

Mr. Bascome said he knew of people on Social Assistance in the late 1980s who were still there today.

He said he "tipped his hat'' to Government for its provision of rental units to low income people but was concerned about the new policy that required former tenants to take on mortgages which were causing them hardship.

This financial hardship, he said, translated into some of the social problems Bermuda was facing.

Mr. Reginald Burrows (PLP), a member of the Defence Board, said he had an opportunity to visit the Bermuda Regiment while they were overseas training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

"I was very impressed with the training they have been doing,'' he said.

"They can't accomplish that here.'' Mr. Burrows said he was also impressed with the enthusiasm of the soldiers while they were training although it was unfortunate that "financial concerns did not allow them to take more personnel''.

Mrs. Grace Bell (UBP) said there was an "anti-Bermudian worker'' stance in the Island at the moment which must stop.

Mrs. Bell, who has recently called for identification cards for expatirate workers, said there were people in both the blue and white collar professions who were without work because of illegally hired foreign workers.

Ms Renee Webb (PLP) said it was interesting that Mrs. Bell was unable to get some redress when the Minister responsible for Immigration was a member of her party.

Ms Webb then called on Bermudians to launch a "Just Say No To Graffiti'' campaign to clean up the bus stops and walls that had been riddled with graffiti.

She then heaped praise upon the Bermuda Police Service for changing its name and issuing a mission statement.

But her Hamilton East running mate, the Rev. Trevor Woolridge , said he was not impressed by the mission statement because it was simply an exercise in public relations.

"I, along with 6,000 other Bermudians, am vigorously opposed to Police (Commissioner Coxall and Deputy Commissioner Mylod). I wait patiently for the Bermudians who will take over,'' he declared.

Mr. David Allen (PLP) said he was happy that dumping had finally ended in Pembroke.

But he added: "I have concerns about the Pembroke Dump. How about the park? No money has been allocated to it. I want to see it become the green lungs of Pembroke.'' Mr. Allen said anti-trust legislation was required to resolve the situation with the tour operators because the smaller cruise operators were being squeezed out.

Shadow Community Affairs Minister Mr. Leon (Jimmy) Williams said he was opposed to large supermarkets opening on Sunday because it would lead to further deterioration in Bermudian society.

But Mr. Dennis Lister (PLP) said it was important to protect smaller stores which do the majority of their business on Sundays, evenings and holidays.

And Mr. John Barritt (UBP) said the mere fact that some stores could open on Sundays while others had to be closed could not be supported by the religious argument.

He said the discussion did not take into consideration the Seventh Day Adventists whose Sabbath day was a normal day of commerce. The law, he said, should apply equally to all faiths.

Tourism Minister the Hon. C.V. (Jim) Woolridge differed with Mrs. Bell on the question of whether "guest workers'' should be required to carry their work permits.

Mr. Woolridge said the onus lay with the employer.

"I do not support guest workers having to carry identification,'' he said.

"In the US Bermudians working have green cards. They do not have tattoos or labels, and we should not do it here.'' On the issue of students obeying rules in school, Mr. Woolridge said: "The onus is on the parents to make sure their children obey the rules in school. I made it possible to meet all my daughter's teachers and informed them that they were to do anything necessary.

"Teachers spend 40 percent or the whole term trying to discipline children.

And the children that want to learn are being sold short. There needs to be more responsibility taken by parents, and in the end the entire community will benefit from it.'' Minister of Home Affairs the Hon. Irving Pearman also responded to comments made by Mr. Allen about how Premier the Hon. Sir John Swan had been "talking about the changes to the Pembroke Marsh for a long time''.

"There are plans to turn the Pembroke Marsh into a park and those plans take years to accomplish,'' Mr. Pearman said. "Mr. Allen wants instant gratification. There are a number of things that have to occur.'' He also said there had to be control over the number of non-Bermudians working in Bermuda.

"However, businesses have come out from the 1991 to 1993 recession period.

Businesses are restructuring themselves. Where can we get labour that is cheaper. Some of these employees come from countries that have a 25 to 30 percent unemployment rate,'' he said.

"I am fully aware of the issues but I am unhappy with how some of my colleagues want to go about policing it.

"We are not going to tolerate illegal workers and we have to see how we will deal with it.''