For the Government to suggest that no inquiry is necessary into the disturbance of asbestos at the Club Med site because, "The Ministry of Works and Engineering is... satisfied that immediate and appropriate steps were taken once the disturbance was discovered" is surely to completely miss the point. An inquiry is needed because the disturbance should never have happened at all.
Indeed, given that it was known that there was asbestos at the Club Med site (as evidenced by the Government's admission that it was in the process of hiring an asbestos abatement crew) I wouldn't be surprised if the Government was guilty of criminal negligence.
UPDATE: A lawyer friend of mine writes:
"Not criminal negligence but I would have thought they are certainly at risk for a negligence claim by the hustle truckers unless clear warnings were handed out to them by the contractors not to do work near particular asbestos areas or carry out the type of work that would disturb it."
