called off at the 11th hour, thanks to the intervention of the Labour Minister. ---- Page 2 STEPHEN BARKER TO RETIRE EARLY TOU Stephen Barker to retire early A Bermuda hospitality veteran is to take early retirement after 25 years in the industry. Stephen Barker, 53, will leave his post as regional vice president of Canadian Pacific's Hamilton and Southampton Princess hotels in July. ---- Page 3 PLAN FOR NEW SEWAGE STATION PLN Plan for new sewage station South Shore waters may well be quite a bit cleaner three years from now as plans for a new $6 million sewage station materialise. The proposed station will see cleaner effluent emptied into the sea and in a more energy efficient manner. ---- Page 8 BFA AWAIT WORD ON TRIO SOC BFA await word on trio Bermuda Football Association should know by the end of this week whether England-based strikers Shawn Goater and Kyle Lightbourne and indoor pro David Bascome will be available for next week's Copa Caribe at the National Sports Centre. ---- Sport, Page 25 NET INCOME A RECORD FOR BANK BUC Net income a record for bank Bank of Bermuda Ltd. reported record third quarter net income of $23.1 million, a 43 percent increase over the same period ended March 31 last year.

---- Business, Page 31 GLOBAL CROSSING BUYS C&W UNIT BUC Global Crossing buys C&W unit Bermuda-based Global Crossing Ltd., a telecommunications up-start company building undersea and land-based fibre optic networks, said it would buy Global Marine, the cable installation unit of Britain's Cable & Wireless Plc, in a deal valued at 550 million ($885 million). ---- Business, Page 31