called following a row over misleading statements made to the Barbados Parliament.

Mrs Mia Mottley, the Barbados Education Minister, won the vote 15-7 after a nine-hour debate sparked by the Opposition saying remarks made about a contract awarded when they were in power were untrue.

The Opposition, swept out of office last September, wanted to censure Mrs.

Mottley, the daughter of Mr. Elliott Mottley, Bermuda's Attorney General, for what it said were misleading statements.

Last November, Mrs. Mottley told the Barbados Parliament that the previous administration, under Mr. Erskine Sandiford, had given a school meals contract to a company quoting more than four times the market rate.

Mrs. Mottley said the contract awarded called for Ometa Distributors to supply Kola Syrup at $34.50 per gallon, rather than the $7.70-per-gallon market price recommended by the Government Tenders Committee.

Ometa Distributors has since said the price Mrs. Mottley mentioned was an error and its actual quote was $34.50 per 5.5-gallon case.

The company said after it discovered the pricing error in May, it sent the Tenders Committee a letter, although Mrs. Mottley said there was no trace of the letter.

Barbados Prime Minister, Mr. Owen Arthur, said he would ask the Attorney General, Mr. David Simmons, to investigate whether the case was a violation of laws against false documents.

Opposition Leader, Mr. David Thompson, said neither he nor his Democratic Labour Party Cabinet had acted illegally.

Mr. Mottley, a leading Barbados barrister and one-time MP, became Attorney General this year.