Census figures on income show the Progressive Labour Party Government’s failure to advance black Bermudians, the United Bermuda Party has charged.UBP leader Kim Swan spoke out over the “significant disparity between blacks and whites with the same academic qualifications” and said he couldn’t believe the gap had widened over 14 years of PLP rule.“Respectfully, race relations was one area that the PLP trumpeted as understanding and many believed that they could improve Bermuda racially,” Mr Swan said.“What would the PLP say about this disparity happening to the black population, if this was happening on the watch another political party — say the UBP?“We are certain that they, like us now, would be gravely concerned and hold the government of the day accountable for being 'asleep at the wheel' among other things.”Meanwhile, One Bermuda Alliance MP Shawn Crockwell took Government to task for dismantling the Commission for Unity and Racial Equality (CURE).Mr Crockwell declared the OBA “dismayed” by the widening income gap between white and black Bermudians reflected by 2000 and 2010 Census figures.“This is especially troubling since the PLP Government inherited a tool with which they could have reversed this unsatisfactory trend,” he said.CURE was established by the previous government in 1994.“This initiative was crucial, as it was the first time the government had put the full force of the Cabinet behind the eradication of institutionalised racism in the workplace.“By 2004 this initiative achieved some success as evidenced by the increase of the number of black executives which rose by seven percent between 2000 and 2004.”He said Government had cut CURE staff and failed to file timely annual reports before putting CURE under the remit of the Human Rights Commission in 2010.“This move was explained to the people of Bermuda as an enhancement of CURE, but what it actually achieved was the removal of the monitoring of workplace practices to ensure fair treatment of all workers. Government’s responsibility is to create an environment of equality and fairness for everyone. The Bermudian worker deserves equal pay for equal work regardless of race, gender, and might I add, sexual preference,” he said.Mr Crockwell declared the OBA as “solid and unmoving” on social and economic equity, “leaving no one behind”.Promising to “leave no Bermudian behind”, he pledged that the OBA, if in Government, would create “an atmosphere of corporate fairness by rewarding those with equality provisions in their Human Resource Management policies and punishing those who are found to practice discrimination”.