generic to Bermuda.

There are problems involved in using the names of people unless they have been leading educators like Victor Scott or Francis Patton. Names that have been well known in the political arena bring with them political baggage and are probably going to cause more controversy than they are worth.

Remember the criticism from the Bermuda Industrial Union when Sir John Swan suggested calling the new park to be created out of Pembroke Dump after Dr.

E.F. Gordon. The Sir Henry Tucker Airport, which he also suggested, did not receive a much warmer welcome. There does not seem to be very much enthusiasm for naming places in Bermuda after people.

Of the three school names CedarBridge Academy seems the most sensible.

CedarBridge Academy does have some serious thinking behind its name. Things like using tough and durable Bermuda cedar to build bridges to the future. The use of the B in the middle does not bode well for the spelling to be used at the Academy and we really wish someone would decide now against the usage.

The real problem seems to arise with calling the old US Naval Base school Clearwater, presumably because it is near Clearwater Beach. Are we going to put a W in the school? The beach was made by the American forces, did not have a Bermudian name and it seems appropriate to keep Clearwater for the beach. However, that does not quite work for the school. Something more fitting for St. David's Island would seem to be more appropriate.

The school stands on the site of the pre-Second World War Bee Hive Farm. Bee Hive Middle School seems a little frivolous. What would be wrong with Dolly's Bay School since it sits above the bay? It is important to bring the US Base Lands back into the Bermuda mainstream.

Now we have Southside, hopefully with no capital S in the middle, as the new name for the base lands at St. David's. That is bound to be confused with South Shore everywhere and seems unnecessary. Just what is wrong with St.

David's West? Or Longbird to return to the old Longbird Island? Spice Valley Middle School is the new name for Warwick Secondary. Not too bad.

It might spend time confused with Spicelands but it was important to stop confusion with Warwick Academy. If anyone had thought to name it after a person, surely it should have been Bermuda's first black Premier, Sir Edward Richards, a man from Warwick.

We seem, to be trying to make things Bermudian sound far too much like housing developments in the United States, dreary and without history or character.