Opposition MPs last night called on Education Minister Randy Horton to immediately publish in full the results of an independent inquiry into the CedarBridge mould crisis.

Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson and UBP backbencher Grant Gibbons said the Minister had had long enough to digest the contents of a report produced by a three-member panel into how the Island's largest public school became contaminated.

Mr. Horton told a press conference on April 13 that the document had been delivered to him. Mrs. Jackson said yesterday that since then "the silence has been deafening". She added: "I have asked for it and I have never had any response."

Dr. Gibbons added: "What we need to have now is to have full disclosure based on the facts of how they dealt with the situation."

Mr. Horton commissioned the review after he was forced to close CedarBridge last November due to mould infestation which was allegedly making teachers sick. The following month the Minister admitted that school principal Kalmar Richards and the CedarBridge board of governors first received reports of mould in the library and auditorium as far back as December 2002.

This newspaper revealed that Government definitely knew about the claims of one female teacher in March 2005 when she wrote to chief medical officer Dr. John Cann about her persistent allergies. We also uncovered a report from US specialists which advised Government last July to spend the summer ridding the school of harmful mould and bacteria.

Mrs. Jackson said the public had a right to know exactly what the inquiry team had discovered about how the problem was dealt with, including why recommendations in the July 2006 report - from Texas-based Microbiology Specialists Inc - to clean up the school last summer appeared not to have been followed.

Dr. Gibbons said: "I think the most surprising thing about this is that they actually opened the school on the basis of knowing full well that they had things here which were pathogenic and clearly harmful to people working and studying in the school."

He said the Microbiology Specialists report showed that levels of bacteria in a sample taken from an air duct in the school were ten times the normal level found in sewage and 1,000 times what would normally be acceptable in drinking water.

A Ministry of Education spokeswoman said the panel's report was with Cabinet. She could not say whether it would be released in full but added: "The Minister said he will release the recommendations."

Staff have continued to complain of ill health since CedarBridge reopened in January but extensive testing commissioned by Government has failed to identify the cause.