Government ministers reacted angrily Friday that opposition member Michael Dunkley discussed, in the House of Assembly, the fight at Westgate in which one man was sent to hospital while the incident is still under investigation.

At 11.36 p.m. Mr. Dunkley told the House of Assembly it was not quite time to go home, he wanted to address the problem of drugs in Bermuda prisons first.

He told the House that the fight at the Westgate on November 26 which landed a prisoner in hospital, stemmed from a dispute regarding the supply of drugs and cell phones.

Mr. Dunkley said it was appalling that drugs were in Bermuda prisons and referred to a 2001 article in in which Minister of Home Affairs and Public Safety Randy Horton said the Government was getting drugs out of the prisons.

Mr. Dunkley said that little has changed in the four years and the Government was not working hard enough.

?If he was vigilant enough he would wake up the canine patrol and go clean those drugs out,? Mr. Dunkley said.

Mr. Horton later expressed his outrage that a member of the opposition would discuss an investigation that was currently underway on the floor of the House of Assembly.

He said it was irresponsible for an opposition member to allow ?rumour mongering? to get in the way of an investigation which was not even seven days old.

Environment Minister Neletha Butterfield, also thought the opposition member was wrong to mention the investigation and said the issue of drugs is one that is prevalent around the world, not just in Bermuda.

And backbencher Glenn Blakeney scolded Mr. Dunkley for bringing ?heresay, anecdotal evidence? to the House of Assembly floor.