LITTER IS SO PITCH IN ipcpo^^"**^^ A SLAP IN O^ AND HELP TO BERMUDA'S FACE KEEP BERMUDA AND YOURS . BEAUTIFUL! Vol. 9 - No. 1. HAMILTON, BERMUDA- FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1979 Price 15 cents. WAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONFERENCE A SUCCESS? Some Say 'Yes^i . Some Say 'No' See Page 6 For Our Political Correspondent's Analysis. END OF CONFERENCE. Mrs. Lois Browne-Evans, Leader of the Opposition, signs the Bermuda Constitutional Conference report in Hamilton City Hall last month (above). Pictured at left is the representatives of Government and Opposition with His Excellency the Governor, Sir Peter Ramsbotham. See page 6 for more pictures and an analysis of the itemss agreed to at the conference. Ace Cann Off to UK For Intensive Course Brother Albert "Ace" Trade Unions Congress Cann, chief shop steward (TUC) and the U.K. Gov­ for the Bus Operators and ernment's Ministry of Allied Workers Division of Overseas Development/ the BIU, is due to leave Department of Employ­ Bermuda September 1 for ment. Covered are all the United Kingdom to aspects of employment, undergo 14 weeks of inten­ industrial training, indus­ sive training in trade union­ trial relations with emphasis ism. on collective bargaining, Cann will be the third human relations, arbitration union official from the BIU and joint consultation. ECONOMIST AND SOCIOLOGIST VISIT. Sir Arthur Lewis, an eminent economist who is to attend a European course Brother Albert is anx­ currently lecturing at Princeton University in the U.S. paid a courtesy call to BIU within the past year: Broth­ iously looking forward to Headquarters last month and he was accompanied by Dr. Kenneth Clark, head of the firm er Austin Wade, an organis­ this course that will have retained by the Bermuda Government to study sociological problems here. Sir Arthur, a St er, was in the U.K. earlier him spending a week at Lucian, was in Bermuda to look into the Government's plan for the setting up of a this year and Brother Cal­ Oxford University, four Development Bank to assist small businesses. He is shown fielding questions from members vert Bean, President of the weeks in one of Britain's while BIU President Ottiwell Simmons and Dr. Clark look on. Marine Division, travelled to lai^er provincial cities and Turin, Italy for a three- at the TUC headquarters. "I month training stint. feel that more divisional officers should have the Charles Tuzo's Retiremenf Party TUC-SPONSORED opportunity to train at such After 28 years of continuous service with the Public Cann's course is held in a level as Ihis in order to be conjunction with the British Transportation Department, Brother Charles "Gyp" Tuzo prepared to take over in the retired recently and his colleagues gave him a party at BIU future", he said. Headquarters. With his wife, Lillian, and his two daughters, Queenie Williams and Joann Tuzo, at his side. Brother Tuzo was BACK FROM SURINAM presented with a silver tray by Brother Ambrose Hayward Sister Aletha Burgess is on behalf of the colleagues at PTD. Speeches were made by back at work at the Ber­ the Director, Mr. Herman Basden, BIU President, Ottiwell muda Telephone Company Simmons and Hayward. Brother Cyril Millett was In charge after participating in a "fol­ of the catering and he prepared a beautiful spread of wine low-up" seminar in Surinam and cheese. held earlier this month. Sponsored by the Postal, Brother Tuzo Is being retained by the Department as a Telephone and Telegraph cashier at the Central Terminal. Because of his expertise in International (PTTl), the the modern transit system, he Is capable of answering any seminar placed much em­ and all questions asked by residents as well as visitors. phasis on how to develop The Workers Voice wishes Gyp all the best in his more involvement in PTTl retirement! unions. Our photograph, taken by Brother Frankie Joell, ALBERT"ACE"CANN shows Tuzo admiring his engraved silver tray. Letters lIO I^potl Dear Madam; I must disagree with the Governor's statement concerning the so-called right way to set up WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? a petition. GENEVA (ILO Information) -Today, people In most To me, and many other developing countries spend more than half their money Bermudians, the Expat Vote and mainly on sustenance, and in some rural households, this Foreign Ownership of land are expenditure rises to 86 per cent. one and the same. , People in developed countries spend a much lower The UBP's latest plan to see^—-^ proportion on food and drink but, of course, their Incomes that the land speculators squeeze are much higher. as much as they can from For families living in some countries In Africa, Asia Bermudians Is one more reason and Oceania, 50 to 60 per cent of their consumption why Bermudians must destroy budget goes for sustenance. People In some parts of Latin the UBP money machine come America, the USSR and some East European countries the next Election. spend about 40 to 50 per cent on food and drink, while Bermudians, you must see West Europeans spend 25 to 35 percent. how we are made to pay more Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealand- for smaller pieces of land where ers are reported to devote about 20 to 25 per cent of their your neighbour hears you when incomes on these items. you sneeze. And If Exempt These and other trends are apparent from a survey of Companies are able to lease land household Income and expenditure in some 90 countries, for housing for their workers, just published by the International Labour Office. our children will be left out in the cold, as people with land REVEALING must cash in on the Exempt Entitled, Household income and expenditure statis­ Company gold mine. tics, the survey covers the years from pre-recession 1968 to ALVIN WILLIAMS Inflation-ridden 1976. It attempts to provide an answer to the question which puzzles economists and husbands alike - where does the money go? As consumer patterns do not change overnight, the lYC Turns ILO data shed a revealing light, not only on the 8-year period covered, but also on the present spending trends and, indeed, on those of the foreseeable future. The survey shows that in developing countries, To Public households spend nearly all the money they receive (95 to Germany and Australia, eating out accounts for 17 to 20 99 per cent) for consumption purposes, namely food, per cent of the food budget, and 10 to 15 per cent in clothing and shelter, transport, education, medical care - Meetings socialist and northern European countries. items which are defined by the I LO as basic needs. In all other countries, especially in Africa, Asia and The It's Your Country In developed countries, families spend money also for Latin America, people spend nothing, or very little on campaign committee is con-- non-consumption purposes, a major part of which is restaurant meals. tinuing it's role in the income tax and other direct taxes, as well as private BEVERAGES struggle of the people of investments. For families living in Australia, Canada, About 18 per cent of food budgets in Great Britain is Bermuda to abolish the Finland, the Federal Republic of Germany, Israel and the spent on alcoholic beverages. Australia and Greenland Expat Vote and secure their U.S., this outlay for non-consumption items amounts to follow closely with about 16 percent. In Ireland, it is 12 to living space, according to a about 13 to 18 percent of total expenditures. 15 per cent; Canada, 14 per cent; Czechoslovakia, Papua, news release from I.Y.C. !n the USSR and other European socialist countries, New Guinea and New Zealand, 11.5 to 12 percent; Malawi The release states that: non-consumption expenditure is about 14 to 23 per cent, a and Sierra Leone (urban households) about 10 per cent; "The committee has collect­ major part of which goes for services. Denmark, Sweden and France, 8.8 to 9.5 per cent. The ed over 7,000 signatures of FOOD BUDGET American family spends about 6 per cent of the food and adult Bermudians, a figure In Nepal and rural households In India, 50 to 60 per drink budget on alcoholic beverages. representing a quarter of cent of the food budget is spent on bread and cereals, in TRANSPORT & COMMUNICATIONS the native population. This Peru it's about 26 per cent, in Africa about 20 to 30 per According to the I LO study, Americans spend more of is a clear mandate from the cent, and, for Americans and most Europeans, around 10 their income on transport and communications, 23 per community against expat­ per cent. cent, than on food and drink, 21 per cent. In Australia, riates voting in the country Milk and dairy products account for 15 to 25 per cent Canada, Finland, Kuwait, New Zealand and Norway, and foreigners being able to of the food budget in India, topping that of the traditional transport and communication expenses are also high, about buy up our limited supply "milk-drinking" Nordic countries, where it is 14 to 16 per 17 to 20 per cent of the household budget. of land. cent. HOUSING "The campaign has now In Belgium, France, Italy and Spain, about one-third Expenditures on shelter (rent, housing charges) are moved to a different level. of the food budget goes for meat and fish, as against 26 to important' items of consumption, accounting for about 16 Public meetings are being 30 percent in many other European countries and 21 to 25 per cent in Asia, 15 to 20 per cent in North America and held throughout the island per cent spent by Australians, Americans and New 12 to 20 percent in Europe.