dead at a Thursday night Progressive Labour Party rally where spectators were urged to make the PLP Bermuda's ruling party.

Joined by Bermuda Industrial Union credit union manager Mr. Calvin Smith, Amalgamated Bermuda Union of Teachers organiser Mr. Milton Scott, and Single Parent Association president Mr. George Scott, at the rally at PHC Stadium in Warwick, neither Dr. Brown nor the others revealed whether they would be running in Warwick.

But they stressed to about 300 people that the PLP is the party to vote for in the next general election and is well prepared to lead Bermuda into the next century.

With the theme of the rally "Time for Change'', the Howard University trustee and professor of medicine at Martin Luther King Hospital, had the crowd chanting after him: "I am a Bermudian. This is my Country. I'm taking it back''.

"After 28 years of living outside of Bermuda, if you think I've come home just to practice medicine, you couldn't be more incorrect,'' Dr. Brown said.

"I have scores to settle, accounts to pull even. I don't overestimate my ability to change things. But I believe the strongest powers in existence are working with me, first the Almighty God then the people. Together we are going to make a change.'' Dr. Brown stressed that change requires work. "If you're not willing to work, as Malcolm X said, "get back in the alley'' because this Progressive Labour Party train is on the way,'' he said.

Criticising Government for a "lack of leadership'', he said it was unable to control the Police and said health care was "a mess''.

"In a Country where parents are forced to choose, because of the economy, between loose change or loose children, it is a shame,'' he said. "There should be a change of Government.'' Mr. Smith warned that Bermudians need to be more competitive and have social and political stability to survive into the next century.

Dr. Brown said one of the first things the PLP will do "when'' it became the Government is form a national institution for arts and sports "where young people don't have to sit on the walls''.

At such an institution, he said, old Bermudians can teach younger ones and thereby "close the gap''.

"That's what's missing because this sick Government has tried to crush the spirit of young people. Their solutions for young people is Casemates. Ours is tapping into their talents.'' Reciting the first verse of the late Bob Marley's "Redemption Song'', he urged young people to realise they could make change.

And after watching some of Bermuda's youth perform between speeches, PLP secretary general Mr. Milton Scott said Government should be pressured into have performing arts programmes at every secondary school.

Accusing Government of not caring about the public's concerns until election time, he said: "The PLP has always presented Bermuda with clear-cut answers and individuals from the grassroots up who are concerned about what is going on in the Country.'' Noting the growing number of female-headed households, Mr. George Scott begged fathers to play a more active role in rearing their children, whether or not they lived with them.

And he urged Bermudians to stop fighting one another and develop a "better means of communicating with one another''.