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The Government has determined that it is necessary that we take fresh guard. The Parliament of Barbados will be prorogued on the 8th of August, 2020, with us resuming in a new session on the 15th of September with a new Throne Speech and with a new direction as to where we must go in order to meet these extraordinarily different circumstances from the original Throne Speech of two years ago – Prime Minister Mottley

Two years into assuming the government of Barbados Prime Minister Mottley tweaked her Cabinet by making changes to her team. The standout changes – Lisa Cummins  and Ian Gooding-Edghill take over at Tourism and Transport respectively. Removed from the Cabinet are George Payne, Trevor Prescod, Lucille Moe, Neil Rowe and Edmund Hinkson.

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Here is the new Cabinet:

    • Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley – Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment
    • Dale Marshall – Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, with responsibility for the Police
    • Santia Bradshaw – Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training
    • Senator Dr. Jerome Walcott – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade
    • Lt. Col. Jeffrey Bostic – Minister of Health and Wellness
    • Dr. William Duguid – Minister of Housing, Lands and Maintenance
    • Ronald Toppin –  Minister of Industry and International Business
    • Kerrie Symmonds – Minister of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship
    • Cynthia Forde – Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs
    • Senator Lisa Cummins – Minister of Tourism and International Transport
    • Ian Gooding-Edghill – Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources
    • Adrian Forde – Minister of the Environment and National Beautification
    • Wilfred Abrahams – Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs
    • Ryan Straughn – Minister in the Ministry of Finance
    • Marsha Caddle – Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Investment
    • Sandra Husbands – Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Trade
    • Colin Jordan – Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations
    • Charles Griffith – Minister in the Ministry of Water Resources
    • Dwight Sutherland – Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment
    • Kirk Humphrey – Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy
    • Indar Weir – Minister of Agriculture and Food Security
    • Peter Phillips – Minister in the Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
    • John King – Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture and Rural Development Commission and eventually the National Development Commission
    • Senator Dr. Romel Springer – Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training
    • Senator Kay McConney – Minister of Innovation, Science and Smart Technology

 

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154 responses to “Prime Minister Mia Mottley Changes Cabinet”

  1. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    So everybody hiding out somewhere, no one wants to touch this steaming hot potato publicly, but it’s okay, will catch yall in the swing, just waiting for the blowback, that one should be even better…

  2. 555dubstreet Avatar
    555dubstreet

    Q: How do you determine a good and bad country Children?

    A: By their Leaders

    https://dailymotion.com/video/xjwk41

    https://dailymotion.com/video/xkrs4v

  3. Piece the Prophet Avatar
    Piece the Prophet

    De ole man has prophesied this long ago but de resident poochlickers was saying dat I, now Piece the Prophet, WAS WRONG!

    More is to happen but, if I Prophet say all dat I been shown, men enough gine run screaming from de building to toss themselves headlong from the mount to their respective deaths.

    And, in addition to being a Prophet, de ole man would be a murderer which is not de same as a killer.

    Heheheheh

    I guess the Rented Jackasses who we shall beat mercilessly because dem is rented and one Koochie Koo gine rush into de fray and spew den faeces now

    Heheheheh

  4. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    @David

    what happened to the blog from yesterday which has commentary on this topic

  5. David Avatar
    David

    https://barbadosunderground.net/2019/04/30/an-invisible-mottley-cabinet/

  6. Piece the Prophet Avatar
    Piece the Prophet

    Yesterday’s blog, if we are speaking of the same item, is a 2019 item with 321 responses.

    It has nothing to do with this topic Mr Greene nothing!

    And to use that blog will “kill” this new subject matter!

    But now you mention it that is what a good Minister of Disinformation would do wouldn’t he?

    Heheheheh

  7. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    @ Piece the Prophet,

    The PM and her party may get lucky if Gonzalo becomes the minister of destruction and distribution.

    There could be a lot of storm rations to distribute generously.

    buh doan mine me.I watched about 10 G G videos yesterday so I just writing foolishness cause I confused by

    de masterclass in the tiefosity of PLT idea unless they plan to appoint him to the senate.lol

    Then there is this LGBTQS hypocrisy but since I live in Canada I will stfu about that subject.

    I will wait to see if those who just got kicked will defend their record or slide quietly into some consultancies.

    David should thank me for the white rice I contributed today.

  8. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ Hants at 8:42 AM
    I hoped David BU had on his green shades yesterday. My father used to send me to fetch his when white rice was the main dish on the lunch menu. LoL!!!

  9. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    What did Neil Rowe do? Can’t remember him for anything except a dispute with a constituent about rent. Notwithstanding the PM’s words about utilizing the ousted members in other capacities Neil will be the quintessential back bencher, keeping a seat warm and applauding like a trained seal when someone makes a point.

    I applauded the PM when she engineered a Constitutional change to allow talented bajans who lived abroad and fell short of the residency requirements to serve in the Gov’t in some capacity but did she bring back young Adams to just warm a seat in the Senate?

    In a recent debate the Bishop got off a good line when he called Sutherland the Minister of Big Business because of his stance in support of the new car importers vs the used car importers. Sutherland was in high dander and let it be known that he was the Minister of Small Business until such time as the PM made a change little did he know that he would soon get his wish.

  10. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Well, David has been asking for this for a long time. However, as is often said, in the local political jargon, amounts to a mere rearrangement of the chairs on the Titanic.

    This prime ministerial action signals that all the political culture is based on is not currently working and can NEVER be made to work again.

    Secondly, the history of politics is replete with instances where prime ministers fired people, and in an attempt to make sure the ship does not sink due to mutiny or seems unstable, try to make publics believe that there is some higher purpose, when in truth and in fact the endpoint could have be seen years before.

    That truism is that it has always been impossible for any government of Barbados to assemble a cabinet, or a list of candidates, with more than a few able persons, regardless of whether B, D or N.

    Indeed, we would wager that based on the metrics used to taper this cabinet that tonnes of fat still remains.

    Even more profound, for this PM to try to convince us that this was a mere administrative action, given the trust levels with some senior figures included in the ‘reshuffle’ beggars belief.

    Maybe, the leader of the opposition, saw this coming and would now appear to some as a doyen, To us all he really did was to box-in this larger multitude now seeking political life jackets, at least for a while.

    ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when we practice to deceive’ (sic)

  11. David Avatar
    David

    @Sargeant

    Rowe bucked the strong trend last election and rode into parliament on the big swing against the DLP government. He is a light weight and obviously expendable in Mia’s quest to change optics.

    >

  12. Vincent Codrington Avatar
    Vincent Codrington

    @ Piece the Prophet.
    It is customary for those, attempting to apply the Westminster form of Governance to shake up the Cabinet in mid- term. For most of us ,political observers ,the tremor was not surprising . A larger reduction in Cabinet ministers and of consultants would have been more impactful.
    I agree that fresh guard needs to be taken in the light of the emerging International Economic landscape and unclear geopolitics.

  13. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    quote] Chairman of the Port, Senator Lisa Cummins, will serve as Minister of Tourism and International Transport, while chairman of the Transport Board, Ian Gooding-Edghill, will become Minister of Transport, Works and Water Resources.

    Cummins takes up the portfolio formerly held by Kerrie Symmonds who will become Minister of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, while Gooding-Edghill’s post combines two of those formerly held by Wilfred Abrahams and Dr William Duguid.

    Mottley said the pair “distinguished themselves as competent hard workers, with a capacity and resolve to a get the job done” and “I have been impressed with them and their stewardship as a chairman of the respective entities over the course of the last two years. They have done well”.

    At the same time, elder statesman George Payne (Housing) will no longer hold a ministerial portfolio, nor will Edmund Hinkson (Home Affairs), Trevor Prescod (Environment) or Senator Lucille Moe (Broadcasting). Neil Rowe is also no longer a parliamentary secretary.

    “This is not a case of dismissing anyone. I want to make it clear I am committed to ensuring that each former member of the Cabinet is utilised in this country in a manner or in the furtherance of the work of this Government and of this nation,” Mottley said. [unquote

    so Cummins and Edghill were praised and promoted and whilst Pyane, Prescod Moe and Rowe are not being dismissed they are being demoted so to speak. man, piss in my pocket and call it snow. MAM really has the gift of flab

  14. David Avatar
    David

    @Greene

    What would you rather her say? Prime Ministers will shift ministers from time to time for reasons political, competence etc. Do prime ministers of the UK do it from t8me to time?

    >

  15. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    Curious as to what happened to Comrade Prescod. Really hope he asked to be cut.
    How can the AG remain in the cabinet. Total failure. Why Cummings as Min. Of Tourism before Gooding-Edghil a successful tourism executive.
    The PM should have reduced cabinet by at least ten.
    Nice to see Gooding Edghill, whose talent was spotted as a Young National in the NDP reach such a zenith.

  16. David Avatar
    David

    Ian Gooding-Edghill is a HR manager.

  17. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    just announce a cabinet shuffle and shuffle. no need for long-winded nonsense explanations. she takes too much. a lot of it pure bollocks

  18. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    Now the president has admitted that her government has spent two years to accept its failure, will the apologists plse come forward and explain? We awe going to see the back of the consultants? What about White Oak? What about BERT, BEST and BOSS? Why is Marshall still in his position?
    So, it now appears, Black Lives Matter and the Nelson statue are the Achilles heels of the Mottley government. We now know in whose interest she rules.

  19. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    @ Hal
    was there ever a doubt. our white brothers and sisters did not come out of the wood work because of COVID 19. just like black bajans they are celebrating the demise of the DLP or rather the ascendancy of the BLP and MAM. that union march was not for nothing. well only where the workers are concerned.

    MAM knows v well for whom she serves and she is doing a v good job

  20. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    @Greene – Well said

  21. FearPlay Avatar
    FearPlay

    @Greene -”Well said” refers to your 09:43 comment

  22. David Avatar
    David

    @Greene

    You have the argument ass backwards. The DLP self destructed. History will record the Stuart government as the worst in out history. Surpassed Sandiford.

    >

  23. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Greene

    It is painful to say it, but it was clear from the default that this government had lost its way. Arrogance and stubbornness stood in the way of progress.
    It will take a brave white Bajan to step forward and reject Mottleyism and out the nation first. But that will be a brave man or woman. Mottley has shown she is incapable of doing the job she was raised to do. She has failed – and so go her global ambitions.

  24. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    @9.28
    Good observation. Who now chairs the NIS? You cannot have one Minister in charge, and another as the Chair? Not that we are ‘more aware’ of anything under IGE, than we were before.

  25. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “This prime ministerial action signals that all the political culture is based on is not currently working and can NEVER be made to work again.”

    it’s an obsolete colonial system whose time has been up for the last 50 years, it was refined to continue into this era….it’s NOT suitable for the 21st century and should be abolished just like the slave system was…..am actually writing a paper on that now…it was not designed nor created by black people, it was designed to hurt and harm those whom it’s still aimed at…

    problem is ya don’t have any people currently in the parliament with the intellect nor abilities necessary to design a brand new system, they can’t even get the transition from the colonial designed 11 plus right and are still trying their best to stubbornly hold on to the mis-education system…none of them created….still believe they have somehow excelled …

    but i am confident that there are Bajans quite capable of ushering in a new education system, a new system of governance, but the capable are NOT TO BE FOUND in the parliament, bar association nor the judiciary…those are the the human colonial designs who got positions they never thought they would, a system that has rendered them all useless from the 1950s to this generation, achieving the bare minimum once elected and never ever being able to do more than we have seen which is all on this side of lacking, all that went wrong since the faux independence THEY can all take credit for, most of which ARE FAILURES, Barrow apparently understood too late some of what unfolded….which is …they are the colonial properties of the UK crown and not fit for purpose…..and never will be….it’s not black people’s system and never will be…develop and design your own system, if you want to survive this dying one, and try not to model it on this cursed one that is on it’s way out..

    If we look at that reality….it’s clear why we will always say nothing will work, nothing will get better, as designed …now ya know why…

  26. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    Mia Mottley has to abolish and rename departments (and ministerial posts) and to reassign responsibilities among departments. This will reflect new priorities or for reasons of efficiency of those yard fowls who weren’t productive in our administration. Shadow ministers, please take a bow in respect of our Prime Minister and the excellent job she is doing.

  27. Tron Avatar
    Tron

    As I have already said, our government is doing many things right in transforming the socialist plantation called Barbados into a modern, liberal society. For example, the restructuring of the SOEs, the downsizing of the cabinet and the salary cuts for the lazy bureaucracy. All highly laudable measures to emancipate the indigenous population and free them from their mental slavery.

    However, one important point of reform is still missing: our Marxist government advisers. People like “comrade” Greendidge obviously hate entrepreneurs and tourists and are doing everything to bully them with ever new taxes. I would just mention the totally insane taxes on airline tickets, which have contributed significantly to LIAT’s bankruptcy. The next madness is the annual visa for top performers, which costs far too much and is far too bureaucratic. Only a Marxist could come up with such a thing. The reason given is that hurricanes are a regular occurrence in Bermuda, not here. What nonsense. Aren’t we looking at a hurricane this weekend?

    Our beloved leader Mia Mottley should dismiss Greendidge and other advisers and finally get some reasonable advice.

  28. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Pacha…the system was not created BY black people, it was created FOR black people, a replacement for chattel slavery, a brilliant replacement for the slave trade, that is why it seemed to be working so well from the 60s when Barbados was so admired, until around the 90s, it had a short shelf life and no one understood the design, because it still kept on going… …when it started to bend and buckle people eventually FELT before they saw that it was not designed to benefit them…all the bragging and boasting could never have stopped it’s collapse..

    don’t worry though, they immediately put another brilliant social engineering plan in place but that went cockup when they got exposed with Windrush…..and this is the fallout.

    when ya hear me admiring those masterfully refined colonial plans to use and later destroy Black people……it’s always UNDER duress….just in case anyone gets ideas..

  29. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    @ Tron

    Credos to shadow minister Tron, your words speak volumes.

  30. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    Pacha…as some of us know something is very wrong with the political system in Barbados….even the constitution the UK also designed that has been amended a handful of times by DBLP since the 80s, sounds all wrong…if ya happened to read any of it….it’s all meant to continue colonial rule, the black faces in the various parliaments do not have what it takes to dismantle this colonial creepiness….so they will all continue to look like fools and the colonial properties that they really are….

    .note that Barbados still does not have it’s own created and designed constitution over 50 years after an independence ceremony, it’s still under colonial rule, don’t mind the little negros running around pretending they are in charge, they are only in charge of destroying their own people and doing as they are told with regards to what others want and not what the people need and are entitled to…

    don’t try to explain any of that to the fowl slaves, they got lost a month ago…

    http://www.afrikanheritage.com/saving-constitutional-rights-from-judicial-scrutiny-the-savings-clause-in-the-law-of-the-commonwealth-caribbean

    “Since the constitutions of the Commonwealth Caribbean states were first adopted in the 1960’s, courts have been confounded by the savings clauses in these instruments. These clauses place a “no go” sign over the fundamental rights grants of the charters by grandfathering pre-existing (colonial) law into the constitutional regime. Meant initially as a shortcut method of marrying common law rights and constitutional protections, the clauses have presented particularly vexing problems of construction as appellate tribunals have attempted to reconcile international human rights norms with municipal law.’

    “Because the Commonwealth Caribbean constitutions are not uniform in their use of the savings clause, there are complex practical problems of interpretation. For example, some of the constitutions have no savings clauses at all, while others have more than one. Some constitutions provide that existing laws should be construed to bring them into conformity with the constitution; others are silent on the question of how to construe conflicting,
    existing laws.

    The constitutional text does not always reveal whether existing statutory law alone is continued or whether common law is also saved. The savings clause in the Barbados and Guyana constitutions applies only to written law.

    The savings clause in the Constitution of Belize was limited to five years after
    independence, and hence, it has expired.”

  31. Donna Avatar
    Donna

    WURA,

    It does indeed take a special mind to imagine and design a new system of government. It will take a mind exposed to much that most of us have never even explored. We have been in a European box for a long time. We have been brainwashed so effectively that we will have to make a conscious and sustained effort to reverse that state of mind. It is not easy. Even my rebellious mind would need some serious work because I’m sure there is still a vestige of Eurocentric bias hiding somewhere in the corners of my mind.

  32. Enuff Avatar
    Enuff

    Yawn…it is a good thing the government never listened to the experts and clairvoyants on BU. 🤣🤣

  33. WURA-War-on-U Avatar
    WURA-War-on-U

    “Even my rebellious mind would need some serious work because I’m sure there is still a vestige of Eurocentric bias hiding somewhere in the corners of my mind.”

    and therein lies the trap, identifying with the colonial system in any form, believing it somehow protects you or cares about you and your current and future generations, or that it was designed to promote and enrich you as the African descended, the trap, luckily for me the day i was born they lost me because from i was able to independently, from an early age, form coherent thought i had discerned that it was all fanciful bullshit designed to destroy, not to uplift nor enrich and i told them that straight up, that i wanted no part of it…..still don’t….check out who your sell out leaders promote, uplift and enrich at your expense..

    check out the psyches of those embedded in that system, they always seem incoherent and devoid of rational thought let alone the skills necessary to abolish that colonial blight……check out the miserable fowl slaves who bend over backward to be part of it, check out the levels of demeaning degradation they are subjected to…they reduce themselves just to be part of an ugly colonial system…cant remember if you were on here some years back when there were more fowls around….it was quite the experience…they are all mostly gone now, probably died from their own diseased minds….there are only a few left, but the minds are still diseased, so don’t be surprised if you don’t see nor here them in about 2 years 10 months and 1 week..

  34. David Avatar
    David

    @enuff

    Feedback from talk shows and social media appear to be positive about the changes to Cabinet?

  35. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Hal
    My major concern is to hear from Comrade Prescod. Apparently he is supposed to speak within the next twenty four hours. If he was fired it means his philosophy/ ideology has clashed with the BLP. If he requested to be relieved, it’s all good.
    As for the other theatrics , with 29 out of 30 seats, the PM can do almost whatever she likes.

  36. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    There must be a clear the air statement. What we do know is that for the last two years the president has been misleading the people. It was a period of failure.
    What triggered this much rumoured reshuffle? Was it Black Lives Matter? Was it pressure from the Social Partnership? Was it a late-night meeting in Cattlewash? The nation has a right to know.

  37. David Avatar
    David

    It is the prime ministers prerogative to invite or dismiss anybody from the Cabinet. Ministers serve at the pleasure of the prime minister.

  38. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    What clear the air statement? Is there some controversy? Are Ministers to quote Barrow like asbestos (fireproof). Whether one likes it or not the PM can make cabinet changes at her whim, it is part of Parliamentary life in most democratic countries.

  39. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    Yes David! The PM is the dictator!
    Your reality is truly, democratic.

  40. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    @David,

    whilst that is true, why did she go to the length of explaining and BSing? why all the long talk? just announce the changes and be done with it. quite frankly i am tired of hearing her talk and talk and talk about every every every thing and accomplish little little little

  41. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    PS – Mugabe’s numerical age now belies her biological decline.
    Powah is corrupting healthy aging

  42. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Sargeant

    You are clearly an expert on the democratic process or in Canada it is very different. Reshuffles do not happen because the leader fancies having one. There must be a reason and in our democracy the ultimate power is with the people.
    It seems in your little world a reshuffle and the sacking of ministers is not controversial. Those ministers constituencies, at least, want to know what has taken place, what did their representative did wrong. Is that not Canadian democracy or can leaders make changes at a whim, as you suggest?
    In our system, the rime minister if first among equals. Under the system we have now in Barbados, we have a presidency, who can act at a whim.

  43. Tony Avatar
    Tony

    @ professor shadow minister WURA-WAR-ON-U July 23, 2020 2:06pm

    Your rubric eliminates most of us 😡. You’re a definite (poet).

  44. David Avatar
    David

    @Greene

    Do you agree it was a reshuffle with a twist with the prorogation of parliament? And this signals a shift in the approach of government for last half of the term.

  45. Pachamama Avatar
    Pachamama

    What Mugabe and Barbados cannot confront is the W-recovery which is the most likely scenario in source markets.

    We say W not V-shaped as the party loyalists would like to think. And this is the best case scenario.

    Even with, let’s say a 40% of GDP stimulus spending as historically be needed, a bumpy W-shaped recovery is the best we can hope for.

    And for AmonRa’s sake don’t expect any help from the IMF. .

  46. William Skinner Avatar
    William Skinner

    @ Hal
    I have never heard a Prime Minister fire ministers and then say that it is not about dismissals.
    “This is not a case of dismissing anyone“ ( Quote-The PM)

    “Things get curiouser and curiouser“
    (Alice in Wonderland)

  47. David Avatar
    David

    A surprise to read someone as long in the tooth buying in to platitudes and rhetoric. To repeat, most prime ministers make changes st midterm.

  48. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ William

    The optics are important. It is an act of deflection, an excuse for two years’ of failure. I am also interested in the long prorogation – five weeks. Why? The government is in a predictable mess.

  49. Greene Avatar
    Greene

    @David July 23, 2020 4:59 PM,

    yes i so believe but i also believe in the Tooth Fairy

  50. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    @Hal A

    Forget the snide comment about being an expert on democracy in Canada (BTW you have a bee in your bonnet about Canada) but you have placed me in the uncomfortable position of defending the Mottley Gov’t. Once again, I ask “what clear the air statement?”. Cabinet reshuffles happen in most countries and Barbados is no different the PM did what is part of her job description, the changes weren’t announced via GIS, she didn’t have to give a reason or embarrass a parliamentary colleague by announcing why he/she was not retained in a particular position. The only time a PM should publicly announce a reason why a Cabinet Minister was if they were accused of corruption, abused the public trust, broke the law of the land or voted against a Gov’t program (that last should be obvious to the public).

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