Premier Paula Cox is keeping tight-lipped about whether she would be willing to replace the Queen’s Honours List with a “more relevant” local awards scheme.Former PLP Senator Walton Brown has resurrected the controversial issue by calling on Government to “dust off” plans for an alternative awards scheme. He claims the accomplishments of Bermudians in social, political and sporting fields should be recognised “in a different and more relevant way”.About ten years ago then Premier Jennifer Smith set up a parliamentary committee to come up with a new awards scheme in response to concerns “within the PLP” that the Queen’s Honours List was not relevant to Bermuda.The committee came up with a Bermuda-based awards system based on similar awards in Canada, Jamaica and other Commonwealth countries. They put forward a detailed report on how to “recognise all those who make a contribution to community on different levels on recognition.”Mr Brown, who is now a social and political commentator, said: “This report needs to be dusted off and placed in the public domain for public scrutiny. Bermuda welcomes people from so many different cultures and races, we are a very diverse Island and we have to recognise that.”Mr Brown believes the monarchy is an “imperfect fit in our modern world” and a “particular and palpably pernicious effect on colonial territories”. He said the Royal family did not reflect Bermuda’s colonial territories and “harkens back to the days of white privilege”.But when Premier Cox was asked whether she would reconsider the report findings of the committee, she didn’t want to comment one way or the other.The Royal Gazette sent the Premier a series of questions, but no comment was received in more than two weeks. Her press secretary confirmed she would not comment. Dame Jennifer, who is now Education Minister, also did not respond to our requests for comment.