Cabinet

[Wahalla]

Ruel Reid a senator Ministry of Education.... MCOB, head master of JC....

I hope he keeps up the strategy that was begun under the last labour government and continued by Thwaitees....

Not un expected.. This is the most important role.. the largest budger after debt servicing...

Was surprised that Tufton was given Health....keep ur rivals close but not too close!

Would have liked not to see the only JLP garrision leader out of the cabinet... but then the PNP cabinet was a host of "Rotten Borough" MPs
Cabinet roll call

No place for Robertson, Warmington, Dalrymple Phillibert, Spencer in line-up

Monday, March 07, 2016 11 Comments

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Cabinet ministers-designate Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange and Karl Samuda converse before the start of the meeting with Prime Minister Andrew Holness at Jamaica House yesterday.
Andrew Holness yesterday began shaping the country’s new Cabinet, which highly placed sources said will see the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) being the centre of the Government’s growth strategy.
Members of the Government were mum when contacted by the Jamaica Observer yesterday. However, the newspaper was told by reliable sources that the ministry of economic growth and job creation, that Prime Minister Holness said during the election campaign he would create, will be based at the OPM.
So too, will the portfolios investment, land, works, housing, water, environment, planning, and climate change.
The OPM will also be responsible for the Urban Development Corporation and the National Housing Trust and will be supported by Dr Horace Chang and Daryl Vaz as ministers without portfolio.

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“This is an unprecedented move and signals the prime minister’s serious intent of achieving economic growth for the country,” said one political analyst who preferred not to be named.Members of the Cabinet are scheduled to be sworn in this afternoon and, given Holness’s posture since he was sworn in last Thursday, will likely start working immediately after.
The prospective members of the executive started arriving at Jamaica House from early afternoon yesterday and spent most of the time after that in a marathon meeting with the prime minister.
According to our sources, the troublesome national security portfolio will go to Robert Montague; Audley Shaw will take on finance and planning; Kamina Johnson Smith has been assigned foreign affairs and foreign trade; Ed Bartlett, tourism; Mike Henry, transport; Christopher Tufton, health; Ruel Reid, education, information and youth, with Floyd Green as minister of state; Karl Samuda, industry, commerce, agriculture and fisheries, with JC Hutchinson as minister without portfolio; Delroy Chuck, justice; Andrew Wheatley, energy, science and technology; Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, sport, culture and gender affairs; Shahine Robinson, labour and social security; Desmond McKenzie, local government; and Marlene Malahoo-Forte, attorney general.
Interestingly, there is no place for veterans James Robertson, Marisa Dalrymple Philibert, Everald Warmington, and Ruddy Spencer in the Cabinet.
Our sources also said that veteran parliamentarian Derrick Smith was offered the position of House Speaker but declined.
Late last night, another veteran parliamentarian Pearnel Charles was said to have been offered House Speaker, considering his vast experience as one who has been involved with politics for over 50 years, but the Observer could not confirm whether or not he had accepted the offer.

[Tuff Gong]

Why shouldn't Garrison MPs get a seat?

[Wahalla]

Because they are anti democratic!!!!!!!

[Tuff Gong]

Because they are anti democratic!!!!!!!

True but the Garrisons have been a part of Jamaican Culture at least the 60s. Take Matthews Lane the first Garrison. It's part of West Kingston. The PNP is unlikely ever to win West Kingston. The JLP won in a Constituency that includes the PNP Garrison of Flanker.
Mr. Holeness is unlikely to lose his seat in the near future. His Constituency includes a large PNP Garrison.

[Wahalla]

My ignorance is showing!!!! It never occurred to me that there were smaller garrisions within a constituency. I really did not know that !!!! Like i say Killsome is a scary forgin place to me!

So there are smaller garrisons with in the consituency But the remaining part of these constituency are "normal" with a 30 30 30 dispribution...

I under stood that the PNP focused on Holness seat....Now that makes sense..

Thwaites had MM old seat: when last did the JLP win that ? However are there "garrisons" within that constituency ?

U know if any of the intellectual pen dragons of UWI ever wrote a paper on the development of garrisons ? Or do they still talk about the 50's and ignore the 70's 80's and 90's....

so we could say there are constituency with garrisons: but not all constituency with garrisons are garrisons!

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My ignorance is showing!!!! It never occurred to me that there were smaller garrisions within a constituency. I really did not know that !!!! Like i say Killsome is a scary forgin place to me!

So there are smaller garrisons with in the consituency

Even in the City only about 4 or 5 Constituencies are Garrisons. Garrisons in KSAC and in the Rural Areas are generally only a fraction of the Constituency.

so we could say there are constituency with garrisons: but not all constituency with garrisons are garrisons!

Correct.

Thwaites had MM old seat: when last did the JLP win that ? However are there "garrisons" within that constituency ?

South Side is the JLP Garrison in Central Kingston.

U know if any of the intellectual pen dragons of UWI ever wrote a paper on the development of garrisons ? Or do they still talk about the 50's and ignore the 70's 80's and 90's....

Yes. Orlando Patterson's book explored: The Children of Sisyphus.
Obika Gray: Demeaned But Empowered.
Patrick E. Bryan: Edward Seaga
Amanda Sives: Elections, Violence and the Democratic Process in Jamaica 1944-2007
But there have been other works. Most locate the Garrison in West Kingston at Tivoli, but it was Comrade Manley himself who firmly located the word in Jamaican Electoral Process: "I thank the Central Kingston Executive. I thank my Paseros of the Garrison - Skully, Val, Boots, Vinnie, Burry, Bernard, Spar....."

[Wahalla]

St E man.... a Bethlehem man!!!! And for the desperate female who trolls all middleage Jamaican men... He is a christian, straight and married....

Reid on secondment from JC to serve as minister

Tuesday, March 08, 2016 2 Comments

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Ruel Reid appointed Senator
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness was able to appoint Ruel Reid as senator and minister of education, information and youth after the board of Jamaica College, where he served as principal, decided to release him on secondment.
According to Jamaica College Board Chairman Michael Bernard, the secondment arrangement has been approved for an initial period of two years. Reid begins operating under the secondment arrangement following the end of his eight-month vacation leave, which started yesterday.
The approval came yesterday at an extraordinary meeting of the board of directors of the school.
Yesterday, after he was sworn in as minister, Reid told the

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Jamaica Observer that he had been in dialogue with the board for some time about the possible move.“We were alerted about the possibility and I kept in contact with my board chairman, so we had assessed the possibility,” he said.
Under a secondment arrangement, there is a temporary transfer of an official or worker to another position or employment.
Following the move by Reid, vice-principal Rohan Wong will act as principal until a replacement is found to initially act in the position of principal.
Reid, who served as an advisor to Holness while he was education minister from 2007 to 2011, has been principal of the all-boys school in St Andrew since 2006.
Born in St Elizabeth, Reid attended Balaclava Primary School and Munro College in the parish. He holds a teacher’s diploma in business education from Bethlehem Moravian College, a Bachelor of Science in Business Education, and a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management from Nova Southeastern University.
A former president of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association, Reid served at Munro College as a master teacher and housemaster from 1996 to 2006.
The new education, information and youth minister was appointed to the Senate by Holness in November 2013 following the controversial removal of Arthur Williams and Dr Christopher Tufton. However, after the court ruled in favour of the two dismissed senators in February 2015, Reid resigned from the Upper House.
Reid, who was first sworn in as a senator, was officially charged with the three portfolios at the swearing-in ceremony for ministers, ministers of state and the attorney general at King’s House yesterday afternoon. He is now a part of the Andrew Holness-led Government which is made up of 14 full ministries to be managed by 18 ministers. These ministers will be assisted by four ministers of state.

[Wahalla]

I am also postive that he wont spend to reinvent the wheel.... Tweak and stop any inefficeny.... Multiple energy sources......

I feel very positive’

Wheatley upbeat about role of energy, ICT in prosperity mission

BY ANIKA RICHARDS Online/Health coordinator [email protected]
Wednesday, March 09, 2016

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WHEATLEY... I believe this is a ministry that we can really use to push Jamaica forward in terms of the theme that we campaigned on
NEWLY appointed Minister of Energy, Science and Technology Dr Andrew Wheatley says he will not discontinue the policies of the previous People’s National Party Administration, but will focus on improving them while bringing new ideas to ensure that Jamaica realises growth.
A positive Dr Wheatley, while speaking with the
Jamaica Observer Monday after being sworn in as minister at a ceremony at King’s House in St Andrew, said he was ready to assume his duties.
“I feel very positive. I believe it is a ministry that we can really use to push Jamaica forward in terms of the theme that we campaigned on: ‘From poverty to prosperity’.“

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During the election campaign, which ended with a Jamaica Labour Party victory on February 25, the now Government’s message was one of moving Jamaica from poverty to prosperity. They also outlined a 10-point plan that would get the country there. Dr Wheatley, who retained his St Catherine South Central seat after defeating the People’s National Party’s Courtney Spence by more than 5,000 votes, also outlined a 10-point plan for the development of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector.“The components of this ministry speaks to some critical elements for growth and creating prosperity for the people of this country,” Dr Wheatley said. “We have already put in place plans; the 10-point plan for the ICT sector will also be expanded, of course.”
The minister, who was quite vocal as Opposition spokesperson on science, ICT and digital society development, told the
Observer that his Government is cognisant of the challenges in the energy sector, which fell under the purview of then Opposition spokesperson on mining and energy, Robert Montague.
“We will be looking at what is currently there and improve on the programmes or policies or projects that are there to ensure that we are not about scrapping what the previous administration had in place. We are going to fully examine what they did and, of course, improve on them because we have ideas as it relates to how we want to see the energy sector grow,” Dr Wheatley explained.
“And, of course, we all can appreciate the importance of energy when it comes to growth, production in particular,” he continued. “What makes Jamaica uncompetitive on the world market is that the cost of energy is very high in Jamaica, so it is paramount for us to lower our energy costs to attract investment.”
He does not, however, forsee any area within his portfolio that will be particularly challenging.
“I believe that I have a competent team of persons and I will be drawing persons with special expertise from all cross-sections of Jamaica to ensure that we put a team in place that appreciates our main objective,“ Dr Wheatley explained. “There will be challenges, but I don’t think they are unsurmountable challenges.”
Eager to hit the ground running, Dr Wheatley told the
Observer that he was going directly to the Ministry of Energy, Science and Technology, which is located at the PCJ Building in New Kingston, after the swearing-in ceremony.

[Wahalla]

This is the most dangerous time in terms of fiscal responsibility from a new goverment.... change for change sake; I am not agaisnt change but if there are any policies that are sensible........

I am a little flummoxed by the speaker of the house role to Pernel Charles.... also i havent heard of any named as deputy prime minster ....

[Wahalla]

I had a conversation with a Jamaican resident and he tells me that the Charles is nearly deaf!!!! And there is no Deputy Prime Minister!!!!

So we had a Blind Senate Speaker and now a deaf Parlimetn speaker.. We are way ahead at diversity of handicapable people!

[Wahalla]

List of senetators... A couple of Dynasties... Cahrles and Johnson smith

Starbwoy is back with his disruptive tactics....

Government Senators:
Tom Tavares (President of the Senate)
Aubyn Hill (Deputy president)
Kamina Johnson Smith (Leader of Government Business)
Ruel Reid
Pearnel Charles Jnr
Don Wehby
Ransford Braham
Kavan Gayle
Dr Saphire Longmore
Kerensia Morrison
Charles Sinclair
Delroy Williams
Matthew Samuda

Opposition Senators:
Mark Golding (Leader of Opposition Business)
KD Knight
Floyd Morris
Angela Brown Burke
Wensworth Skeffery
Sophia Fraser Binns
Lambert Brown
Noel Sloley