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Monday, January 12, 2004 - A number of changes within the Cabinet of
Ministers takes effect on Monday January 12, 2004. Delivering his New Year’s
message Sunday January 11, 2004, Prime Minister Honourable Dr. Kenny Anthony
indicated that with the reshuffling of his Cabinet a Ministry of Home Affairs
and Internal Security will be established.
“In This configuration, Home Affairs will be reunited with the Police. In
effect, Internal Security which essentially deals with police matters will be
added to the existing Ministry of Home Affairs. The Department of Gender
Relations will be reassigned to its former home - the Ministry of Health, Human
Services and Family Affairs. This Ministry will once again be styled, the
Ministry of Health, Human Services, Family Affairs and Gender Relations. Senator
Calixte George will be reassigned from the Ministry of Agriculture to head the
Ministry of Home Affairs and Internal Security.”
According to Dr. Anthony Senator Petrus Compton will be required to focus
exclusively on the work of the Office of the Attorney General and the other
matters pertaining to the courts. He will continue to hold the Office of
Attorney General and Minister for Justice but Senator Compton will no longer be
responsible for the police.
 The vacancy created in the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries with
the reassignment of Senator Calixte George will be filled by Honourable Ignatius
Jean. Prime Minister Anthony says the Hon. Ferguson John, the Parliamentary
Representative for Choiseul and Saltibus will be appointed to his first ever
Cabinet post as Minister for Physical Development, Environment and Housing.
“In the ministerial configuration just indicated, it will be observed that
Honourable Sarah Flood Beaubrun has not been assigned to a Ministry. I have
decided to relieve her of ministerial office and its accompanying
responsibilities. The principles of Collective Responsibility are enshrined in
our Constitution. In the operation of these principles it is understood that
there will be differences but there is no room for insult, disrespect, invective
and calumny no matter how powerful the passion and conviction one holds. If
there is no respect for and among colleagues then Collective Responsibility will
not survive.”
A Parliamentary Secretary will be appointed to the Ministry of External Affairs,
International Trade and Civil Aviation to oversee the work of that Ministry in
the absence of Senator Julian Hunte who is now chairman of the 58th session of
the United Nations General Assembly.
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