Opposition Works and Engineering spokeswoman Patricia Gordon-Pamplin is challenging the electorate are you going to put up with Government's oversight of the Police/Court building contract?

She spoke out after revelations that original contractors Landmark Lisgar Construction had tried to found a six-storey elevator shaft on sand a gambit labeled a potential threat to public safety by a Government architect.

The company had to rip out the elevator core then a storey high. It was just one of a litany of complaints about errors, waste, disorganisation and delay at the $78 million Hamilton job site throughout last year.

Mrs Gordon-Pamplin said: "The court building has become another incestuous debacle, with some of the same players from the ill-fated Berkeley project playing major roles in this new building."

The Berkeley project came in three years late and more than $55 million over-budget.

Mrs Gordon-Pamplin added: "As long as the taxpayer is happy to allow this level of mediocrity, poor oversight, shoddy workmanship all with no accountability and plagued with a plethora of excuses, then the end product will be in keeping with lowered expectations."

Recently Auditor General Larry Dennis attacked the lax financial controls on the project with $6.5 million already paid out without supporting evidence and more likely to follow.

And this week it was revealed that experts from both inside and outside Government had lashed out at a series of problems throughout 2008, including a disorganised sequence of construction which was "incoherent or contradictory, performed in a disparate manner and altered continuously, following no logical order or accepted industry norms".

And there were complaints of builders trying to cut corners to save money and builders changing plans without permission.

In late 2008, Landmark Lisgar became LLC Bermuda Ltd with Canadians Lisgar being cut from the project but local firm Landmark remaining involved. Neither company have wanted to comment.

Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin predicted Government will continue to hire sub-standard contractors with cash flow problems, will continue to bail out projects by changing payment terms and will continue to ignore the advice of their knowledgeable technical officers in favour of Ministerial preferences and Cabinet override.

"They will do this because the smitten electorate have determined that they are not worth anything better than what they have elected to govern them," said Mrs. Gordon-Pamplin.

The new building on the junction of Court, Church and Victoria Streets will be named after Progressive Labour Party legend Dame Lois Browne Evans.

Mrs Gordon-Pamplin said: "Dame Lois must surely be turning in her grave to see her name associated with such a disaster.

"The PLP government truly needs to get out of the construction oversight and contractor selection business."