"millenium bomb'' in Government computers, according to Finance Minister Grant Gibbons .

UBP backbencher Ann Cartwright DeCouto requested information on Friday on how Government planned to handle the feared worldwide computer crash set to be caused by computers being unable to recognise the year 2000.

Dr. Gibbons explained the problem, known as the millennium bomb, was a software issue since programmes were written using two digits to note the year instead of four.

Dr. Gibbons said a report was being compiled on the issue which will be ready in the "not too distant future''.

He admitted that rectifying the problem would take "some expenditure'' and said funds will be made available for the correcting the glitch next year.

Also in the House of Assembly, Shadow Works and Engineering Minister Stanley Morton PLP requested details on the legal position of the dormant St. George's property Club Med.

Tourism Minister David Dodwell said legal action had been reinitiated, but warned it will be a lengthy process which could take two or three years.