Golding Names Cabinet....

**remo** · 09-13-2007, 11:05 AM

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[quote=SmoothOperator]Master Bruce means business and names his cabinet. Looks like 14 ministries and 18 ministers. Also in his inauguration speech yesterday Golding reiterated his free tuition promise (so much for the notion that it was an empty promise).uote]

empty promises no but whe di money coming from?.....An Mike Henry with a cabinet post dat deh man have plenty blood on his hands......
Having said dat I wish dem di best

**Dr.Dudd** · 09-13-2007, 01:02 PM

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18 for Cabinet in Jamaica
published: Thursday | September 13, 2007

Prime Minister Bruce Golding climbs the stairs to his office at Jamaica House yesterday, his first day on the job. - Rudolph Brown/Chief Photographer

Ken Baugh PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has made good on his promise to scrap the Ministry of LocalGovernment, which he had said was unnecessary and only served to burden the taxpayers.

Yesterday, he named an 18-member Cabinet, four more persons than the most recent Cabinetled by former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

The new Cabinet will contain 15ministries, two more than the previous administration.

Along with the job of Prime Minister,Mr. Golding takes the portfolios of Defence, Planning and Development.

Audley Shaw has beennamed Minister of Finance and Public Service, while Derrick Smith has been named Minister ofNational Security.

Mr. Smith's appointment shelved speculation that former policecommissioner, Colonel Trevor MacMillan, would have been brought through the Senate for the jobof National Security Minister.

Meanwhile, for the first time since the P.J. Patterson era,Jamaica will have a deputy prime minister. Dr. Kenneth Baugh will take on that task while alsocarrying out the job of Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.

Delroy Chuck, who wasthe Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Spokesman on Justice, was not considered for the same portfolioin government. Instead, Dorothy Lightbourne, who served as a senator in the last Parliament,has been appointed the country's first woman Attorney-General and Justice Minister.

Delroy Chuck Speaker of the House

Mr. Chuck will be nominated as Speaker of the House.

Newcomer to representationalpolitics, Dr. Christopher Tufton, will be the Minister of Agriculture; Edmund Bartlett,Minister of Tourism; Andrew Holness, Minister of Education; Karl Samuda, Minister of Industryand Commerce; and Clive Mullings, Minister of Mining and Telecommunications.

Horace Changtakes on the job of Minister of Water and Housing; Trade unionist Pearnel Charles, Mr.Golding's brother-in-law, will be Minister of Labour and Social Security. Rudyard Spencer willbe Minister of Health and Environment; Mike Henry, Minister of Transport and Works; and Olivia'Babsy' Grange, Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports.

Mr. Golding has alsonamed three ministers without portfolio. They are James Robertson in the Office of the PrimeMinister and Don Wehby and Dwight Nelson in the Ministry of Finance and PublicService.

Until his appointment, Mr. Wehby was the Chief Executive Officer of GraceKennedyInvestments.

Charlene Sharp-Pryce, lecturer at the Northern Caribbean University (NCU), toldThe Gleaner last night that "the only surprise I have is with the number since it is one ofthe things [large cabinet] that he (Golding) has criticised."

She added: "It is a very largecabinet...I am happy that he has included Christopher Tufton."

Ms. Sharpe-Pryce said she waswilling to trust Mr. Golding's judgement since, she believed, he knows the team he is workingwith.

Meanwhile, commentator Kevin O'Brien Chang described the decision to appoint Mr. Wehbyand Mr. Nelson in the finance ministry as "a master stroke".

"There are doubts about Mr.Shaw and it is clear that they are there to help him," Mr. Changsaid. "Mr. Wehby to appeasethe business people and Mr. Nelson to appease the trade unions."

**mountaingal** · 09-13-2007, 02:06 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body">PRIME MINISTER Bruce Golding has made good on his promise to scrap the Ministry of LocalGovernment, which he had said was unnecessary and only served to burden the taxpayers.
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i think Seaga did the same thing in the 1980s (and the PNP restored the ministry). The argument at the time was similar, and the thinking was that local issues could be addressed centrally. I think the model used was each MP was allocated a certain budget for local matters.

I remember hearing that one MP used the funds to build up her property which she then turned into a tourist business. Don't know if that's true. But there were certainly inconsistencies in the use of those allocations.

Hopefully Bruce will apply the lessons of the past in this go-round.

**meknoise** · 09-14-2007, 10:08 AM

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Remo: Re free schooling.. 'but whe di money coming from?..

For a start, if Bruce can crack down on corruption-read Contractor and Auditor generals' reports that the (past) government handed out contracts to friends and cronies amounting to millions of taxpayers' money that can't be accounted for.

Add to that, political favourites who collect salary but don't actually have real jobs-get rid of them and they'll be nuff money in the pot.

Once you have accountability there will be enough funds to do the important things like educating children.

**Q3210** · 09-14-2007, 10:35 AM

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Why so many MPs with so many ministries?

How are they going to perform their duties of representing their constituents when they are tending to their ministries especially the ministers with constituencies far out of Kingston?

Shirley Williams, McMillan are a few who would make good ministers and the MP`s stick to representing their constituents.

**remo** · 09-14-2007, 10:41 AM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: meknoise</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Remo: Re free schooling.. 'but whe di money coming from?..

For a start, if Bruce can crack down on corruption-read Contractor and Auditor generals' reports that the (past) government handed out contracts to friends and cronies amounting to millions of taxpayers' money that can't be accounted for.

Add to that, political favourites who collect salary but don't actually have real jobs-get rid of them and they'll be nuff money in the pot.

Once you have accountability there will be enough funds to do the important things like educating children. </div></div>

WElcome Meknoise
So yuh no tink Bruce hav him friends in high an low places?
juss like Portia an PJ an Ciaga an all di ress of dem

Anyways Your talking Millions but him is going to need Billions with a capital B

**Q3210** · 09-14-2007, 10:45 AM

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Dat mean he is putting his Integrity on the line with a capital -I.
And he will as he said, need to stomp out Corruption so as to retain financing for what Govt. is there to finance with a capital-C

**remo** · 09-14-2007, 10:54 AM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Q3210</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Dat mean he is putting his Integrity on the line with a capital -I.
And he will as he said, need to stomp out Corruption so as to retain financing for what Govt. is there to finance with a capital-C </div></div>

Ok seh him stamp out corruption 100%(good luck wid dat)
how long dat going to take? 4-5 years?...My question is whe him get di money now for free schooling?free health care an all him odder promises

**Dr.Dudd** · 09-14-2007, 12:23 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: meknoise</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Remo: Re free schooling.. 'but whe di money coming from?..

For a start, if Bruce can crack down on corruption-read Contractor and Auditor generals' reports that the (past) government handed out contracts to friends and cronies amounting to millions of taxpayers' money that can't be accounted for.

Add to that, political favourites who collect salary but don't actually have real jobs-get rid of them and they'll be nuff money in the pot.

Once you have accountability there will be enough funds to do the important things like educating children. </div></div>
Well collecting the US$48 million that Butch Stewart owe on the Wbite House hotel would be a good start.
Or that won't be included!! No?

**RichD** · 09-14-2007, 12:30 PM

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eh is butch stil a comrade or him did jump ship?

**Dr.Dudd** · 09-14-2007, 12:43 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">eh is butch stil a comrade or him did jump ship? </div></div>
You don't read the Observer which he owns and seem to be executive editor?
You don't read his speeches during the run up to the election.
Go back and read them...... and then ask the question again.
As far as I see,the only party he belongs is the one that will allow him to use the tax payers to sunsidize is wealth building activities.

**RichD** · 09-14-2007, 12:50 PM

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so when di his tune change ?with the commin of sista P?

because is PNP mek him .

**Dr.Dudd** · 09-14-2007, 12:58 PM

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so when di his tune change ?with the commin of sista P?

because is PNP mek him . </div></div>
When he gave back Air J.
The JLP is setting to give him it back under guize too,as an installment for being the main financier of the election. More to come, he who pays the piper calls the tune... Or is it the golden rule says that he who spend the gold makes the rules.

**meknoise** · 09-14-2007, 01:59 PM

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Remo: Thanks for the welcome! Bruce DOES have friends in high and low places. However, he has been given a mandate to put an end to corruption and political favouritism. I would be stupid to think he's perfect, but he if all he wanted was power he would never have left the JLP; he was a natural shoo-in upon Eddie's retirement. Eddie only hung on because his 'heir apparent' left him.

He has been singing the same song for many years. I expect to see him live up to his 100 days pledge.

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