‘SMELL IS ROTTEN’ ON

Parliament the log of the maintenance programme for last couple years so we can see and table in here. Then we can enter our discussion…”

Mr Davis fired back, claiming that more than $3m has been lost maintaining the Wartsila engines, and that they were installed in a “dilapidated building” and could not all be run at the same time for fear the building would collapse.

He said: “That is coming because he would find out, right, that those engines were supposed to burn a particular type of oil. You will find that the engines were not able or capable of doing so. And, as a result, it has caused an acceleration of maintenance to the extent where over $3m has been lost in the maintenance of those engines.

“You will find that Wartsila . They’re not here, but they’re being paid millions of dollars. For what Bahamians were doing. You will find that those engines were constructed in a dilapidated building. Therefore they can’t run for fear that the building will collapse on it That’s the findings. They never ran the seven engines that’s put there.”

Mr Davis said The Bahamas is still paying for the engines in a deal that “doesn’t smell good”, and