Premier Dr. Orlando Smith authorised a payment last month for more than $201,000 to settle an architectural firm’s 2009 bill for work on the troubled greenhouse project.
The firm, owned by in-laws of former Natural Resources and Labour Minister Omar Hodge, received more than $530,000 in petty contracts in 2008 and 2009 relating to the greenhouses and other projects while the ministry was under Mr. Hodge’s supervision, records show.
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