Alvin Williams describes the "nefarious smear campaign" waged by the combined Opposition in his weekly column. Mr. Williams:

In the wake of what I believe was a crude attempt to frame the Works Minister, Derrick Burgess and Premier Ewart Brown by planting bogus cheques in the Works & Engineering Ministry records intended to suggest members of the Government received what amounted to kick backs from contractors it is clear that Bermuda not only has an ongoing racial divide, but a deepening political divide with a reactionary political element in this country that will stop at nothing to discredit the Progressive Labour Party Government and its political leadership...

Ever since the Progressive Labour Party assumed the reins of government, it has been the subject of a concerted campaign intended to suggest they are corrupt. Even in the wake of Scotland Yard being sent here to investigate allegations of wrongdoings in the affairs of the Bermuda Housing Corporation and their failure to find any such wrongdoins, political detractors have kept up their nefarious smear campaign against the Government.

Their campaign has reached such a level that it could threaten the political stability of this country and this latest act makes this quite clear.

If it is true that bogus cheques were planted in an attempt to discredit the Premier of this country and an outspoken Minister in his Government, then such a scheme can be considered nothing less than an attempt to pull down this Government. Their political detractors would like to win the political debate on corruption charges wth a knock-out blow that would allow them to regain control of the Government.

The combined Opposition is committed to doing whatever it takes to discredit the PLP Government. They want power and they will lie, cheat and smear to regain it. Mr. Williams goes on to reveal their deep hypocrisy:

As far as political corruption is concerned, a great case could have been made against the UBP at that time everything from favouritism to cronyism and using the Government for personal economic advantage.

In the latest edition of The Workers Voice, columnist LaVerne Furbert names United Bermuda Party Government members who enjoyed access to Government contracts for work and services rendered to the Government. No one accused them of using their political positions to gain unfavourable economic benefits and/or corruption. Even on those occasions when the then PLP Opposition brought the issue up on the floor of the House of Assembly, they were soon dismissed and certainly there was no sustained attempts at follow-up on the part of the media in Bermuda.

In some jurisdictions, the media is biased against the party in Government. In Bermuda, the media is clearly on the side of the UBP. They're cut from the same cloth and they both yearn for the day when Bermuda is once again governed of, by and for the old aristocracy.