By SANCHESKA BROWN

Tribune Staff Reporter

sbrown@tribunemedia.net

LABOUR Minister Shane Gibson yesterday warned FNM members to exercise caution when they criticise the PLP government because he knows “where all their bodies are buried”.

One of those “bodies”, according to Mr Gibson is the fact that the former Ingraham administration terminated MalJack Construction for their “faulty” work at Garvin Tynes Primary School, but then gave them another contract at C H Reeves High School for $1.8m.

His comments came after the FNM criticised the government for awarding Holiday Industrial Builders International (HIBI) a contract for $5.8m to build what is now the Office of the Attorney General, when they were terminated by the Ingraham administration in 2008.

The difference between the two, according to Mr Gibson, is that MalJack Construction was terminated with cause because they were unable to complete the job while Holiday Industrial Builders was terminated without cause because they were perceived to be PLP.

“They terminated MalJack for shoddy work, faulty work. They have a whole report on Garvin Tynes school where they show that this man did bad work and then recommended that they should not be given a contract again. He was terminated for cause and that is why I cannot understand the members opposite. This is a contractor who was fired by them who could not fix Garvin Tynes school. All the independent reports show that he could not finish it. He then tried to attack the employees at the Ministry of Works, talking all kinds of nonsense,” he said.

“So because he couldn’t do his work, he couldn’t finish it; he did terrible work, he tried to place the blame on the Ministry of Works. But, Mr Speaker, what you think the FNM decided to do when they came back in office? The same man they terminated for lousy work they did at Garvin Tynes, who they terminated for cause? He was given a contract at C H Reeves school for $1.8 million.

“How is it that you can fire a man for cause, and the evidence of his work is still at the Garvin Tynes School, and then give him a contract for $1.8 million? Then you come into office and try to victimise someone else and tell us to fire them because you fire him without cause. Something is desperately wrong and then they have the nerve to act like none of these things happened.”

Mr Gibson also said the FNM is “making noise” about their chairman Darron Cash’s house being raided, when the FNM set up a special team at Police Headquarters – just to investigate him.

“They talking about Cash? Man, they summoned me down to police headquarters, SIB. You hear them, the member for Long Island talk about this special team. They set up a special investigation team and their only job was to investigate me. That was their only job and the man tell me every time he call the Prime Minister and say he don’t have nothing on me, the Prime Minister tell them ‘go back again’.

“So the reason why they think that Darron Cash was politically motivated was because that is what they did to me. The day I was about to walk on stage in Golden Gates and be nominated they went to all my friends and said ‘tell Gibson we coming to get him now’.

“So when I walked on the stage, they tell me don’t go because they coming to lock me up right now. All of the corrupt things they talk about they created the mould. So when they talk, I listen and I say ‘check right there, the body is buried right there.’”

The home of Mr Cash was raided last week by Central Detective Unit officers who said they were in possession of an ex-parte search warrant issued by a Magistrate, as part of the ongoing investigation of the finances of the Bank of the Bahamas.