Assembly again yesterday with United Bermuda Party Devonshire South MP John Barritt raising the issue.

The discussion prompted a flare up with UBP MP Jim Woolridge claiming that Works and Engineering Minister Alex Scott had lied to the House.

Mr. Barritt charged that Mr. Scott and Transport Minister Ewart Brown failed "to operate in the sunshine of public scrutiny'' on the issue.

Mr. Barritt held that House members were only informed last week that a change in the law to allow the bigger cars had been made.

He asked why the decision was carried out in this manner and not brought to Parliament as an amendment.

Speaking from her seat, Telecommunications Minister Renee Webb said the cars were purchased in an effort by the Government to support a black business.

"We wanted to support a black business if you really want to know,'' she said. "Shifting the economic wealth is part of our agenda.'' Mr. Barritt held that he had no difficulty with Peugeot cars or with dealers but rather in the way the Government had handled the whole matter.

Mr. Woolridge charged that Mr. Scott had committed perjury and lied to Parliament on the issue.

Mr. Woolridge claimed that Mr. Scott told the House of Assembly back in January that there would be no more oversized cars and he called for him to resign.

"He took an oath,'' Mr. Woolridge said. "I do have a problem when you violate a secret oath with your hand on the Bible.'' But Mr. Scott defended himself and challenged Mr. Woolridge to produce a tape recording of him making the statement.

He pointed out that the simple phrase Mr. Woolridge used -- "oversized cars'' -- was not terminology he had ever used because he never considered the vehicles to be "oversized''.

"He must produce that tape or else I order him to apologise to me on the floor of this House,'' Mr. Scott said.

But Shadow Transport Minister Erwin Adderley rose to his feet claiming that he remembered Mr. Scott assuring members of the House that there would be no more oversized cars.

Mr. Adderley said he would "take the necessary steps to produce that tape'' and went on to give a time line on how unlikely it was that the cars were ordered after Mr. Scott had made the statement.

"There were only 15 working days between December 17 when the Minister made the statement and January 12 , when the first car arrived on the Island,'' he said.

To be continued in Tuesday's paper