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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit earlier this evening announced his new Cabinet of Ministers and associated Parliamentary Secretaries following the Dominica Labour Party’s victory in the Dec 6 general elections.<\/p>\n
The new Cabinet is listed below.<\/p>\n
Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit <\/b><\/p>\n
Prime Minister and Minister for Investment and Governance.<\/p>\n
Hon. Dr. Irving McIntyre <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Finance, Economic Development, Climate Resilience and Social\u00a0Security.<\/p>\n
Hon. Dr. Vince Henderson <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Foreign Affairs, International Business, Trade and Energy.<\/p>\n
Senator Rayburn Blackmoore <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for National Security and Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n
Hon. Cassanni Laville <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Health, Wellness and Social Services.<\/p>\n
Hon. Melissa Poponne-Skerrit <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Housing and Urban Development.<\/p>\n
Hon. Roland Royer <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries, Blue and Green Economy.<\/p>\n
Hon. Denise Charles <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Tourism.<\/p>\n
Hon. Fidel Grant <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Public Works, Public Utilities and Digital Economy.<\/p>\n
Hon. Miriam Blanchard <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Labour, Public Service Reform, Social Partnership, Enterpreneurship\u00a0and Small Business Development.<\/p>\n
Hon. Gretta Roberts <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Culture, Youth, Sports and Community Development.<\/p>\n
Hon. Cozier Frederick <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for the Environment, Rural Modernisation, Kalinago Upliftment and\u00a0Constituency Empowerment.<\/p>\n
Hon. Octavia Alfred <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister for Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training and\u00a0National Excellence.<\/p>\n
Hon. Daren Pinard <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister of State in the Ministry of Labour, Public Service Reform, Social\u00a0Partnership Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development with specific\u00a0responsibility for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development.<\/p>\n
Hon Jullan Defoe <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Blue and Green\u00a0Economy with specific responsibility for Fisheries and Blue Economy.<\/p>\n
Senator Hon. Oscar George <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister of State in the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports and Community\u00a0Development, with specific responsibility for Youth and Sports.<\/p>\n
Hon. Chekira Lockhart- Hypolite <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister of State in the Ministry of Public Works, Public Utilities and Digital\u00a0Economy, with specific responsibility for Public Utilities, Telecoms and\u00a0Broadcasting.<\/p>\n
Hon. Dr. Cassandra Williams <\/b><\/p>\n
Minister of State in the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Social Services, with\u00a0special responsibility for Seniors Security, Children at Risk, Gender Affairs and\u00a0the Differently Abled.<\/p>\n
Hon. Fenella Wenham <\/b><\/p>\n
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Human Resource Planning,\u00a0Vocational Training and National Excellence, with specific responsibility for\u00a0Education Reform and Human Resource Development.<\/p>\n
Hon. Darron Lloyd <\/b><\/p>\n
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of the Environment, Rural Modernisation,\u00a0Kalinago Upliftment and Constituency Empowerment with specific responsibility\u00a0for Constituency Empowerment.<\/p>\n
Hon. LaKeyia Joseph <\/b><\/p>\n
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Blue and Green\u00a0Economy, with specific responsibility for Development of Community Agro\u00a0Enterprises.<\/p>\n
Senator Kent Edwards <\/b><\/p>\n
Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Social Services\u00a0with particular responsibility for Community and Home Care.<\/p>\n
It is my intention, at the first sitting of Parliament, to nominate Mr. Joseph Issac to\u00a0serve, for a second term, as The Honorable Speaker in the House of Assembly.<\/p>\n
Senator Phillip Rolle will also be nominated as Deputy Speaker of the House of\u00a0Assembly.<\/p>\n
The fifth Government Senator in the Parliament of Dominica shall be Mr. Austel\u00a0Lockhart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit earlier this evening announced his new Cabinet of Ministers and associated Parliamentary Secretaries following the Dominica Labour Party’s victory in the Dec 6 general elections. The new Cabinet is listed below. Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit Prime Minister…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":295705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[264,286,235,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-governance","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n