A Works and Engineering van parked on the sidewalk outside Global House on Thursday contains old light fixtures that were removed and replaced from inside the building. The cost of replacing the old lights may cost nearly $6,000.

Government is understood to have so far ordered less than a quarter of Global House’s replacement lights from a second electrical company.

Works and Engineering staff were this week instructed to rip-out the controversial LED fixtures and replace them with fluorescent tube lights.

The replacement of the potentially dangerous lights came just four days after The Royal Gazette revealed they breached health and safety regulations, as well as building and electrical codes.

But The Royal Gazette can now reveal that only about 300 of the 1,300 fluorescent lights needed for the building refit have been purchased from ESC Limited of Pembroke.

Premier Paula Cox and Deputy Premier and Public Works Minister Derrick Burgess have repeatedly refused to say how much the new lights cost and whether taxpayers will foot the bill.

But the retail price of each light is said to be about $4.50, so Government is understood to have handed over about $1,350 of a repair job which could cost a total of about $5,850.

Government is understood to have called in new company ESC Limited after being unhappy with the work provided by Electrical Technology Management (ETM).

Mr Burgess went against the advice of technical officers and gave the go-ahead for ETM to install the environmentally-friendly LED lamps about two years ago at a cost of about $100,000.

But Government workers immediately started to raise health concerns about the ‘cave effect’ of the blue-tinted lights.

Then on Monday The Royal Gazette published a report by the Electrical Section of the Ministry of Works and Engineering highlighting a series of errors about the LED installation.

The damning report stated that no proper feasibility study was carried out, technical officers had raised concerns in advance about poor lighting levels, the lights installed were not certified with a recognised electrical testing laboratory, and an electrical permit for the lights was not applied for.