BERMUDIAN SOCIETY IS STILL DOMINATED BY THE WHITE MINORITY
13. The Report draws attention to the rapid progress made
since de-segregation in the early 1960's and notes that the
Bermuda Government's aim is that of "total integration". The
Report's recommendations will greatly help the achievement of
this objective.
14.
THE BLACK MAJORITY DO NOT HAVE EQUALITY OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
The Report shows that there is, as in most countries, a
variation in living standards between the income groups and its
proposals for overcoming this are deserving of the most serious
However the annual per capita income in Bermuda
consideration.
in 1976 was just under 7,000 US Dollars, Bermuda's unemployment
rate was about one and a half per cent and its level of inflation
was under five per cent.
THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM IS RACIALLY BIASED
15.
Although the electoral arrangements are in line with normal
British and Commonwealth practice, Bermuda's circumstances.
(e g small size and unusually large number of expatriates who
are qualified to vote) make it essential to achieve greater
precision in drawing up constituency boundaries and deciding
on the qualifications of those eligible to vote in elections.
The British Government consider these matters to be of great
importance.
THE RULING UNITED BERMUDA PARTY IS MULTI-RACIAL IN NAME ONLY
16. This allegation is wholly baseless. No one of course knows
individual voters' preferences at the last elections, bu!
must have been substantial black support for the UBP. The
Cabinet is racially balanced.
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