Newly appointed Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley on Saturday named a 30-member Cabinet and 12 Government senators less than a 48 hours after she led her Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to a clean sweep of all 30 seats in the Parliament.
She has also indicated plans were afoot to reform the Constitution to allow for the main opposition party to name two persons in the Senate given the results of the May 24 general election.
Mottley, the first woman to head a government in Barbados said that the members of the Cabinet will be sworn in at a public event tomorrow at a venue opposition the government headquarters on the outskirts of the capital.
“Members of the public are also welcomed to attend and to witness the swearing in of the people’s government,” she said, adding that the Cabinet “will be relatively large because I have not only considered the mandate given to us by the people but also the scope of the work to be done and the level of expertise at our disposal among elected members”.
In a radio and television broadcast, she said she would be holding the ministers to “very high standards of efficiency and productivity and therefore offered to share the workload across a significant portion of the parliamentary group.
The 53-year-old Prime Minister said that from the structure and lay out of the Cabinet, there would be the “traditional bedrock portfolios” as well as embracing new concepts and initiatives.
She said that these are all vital components of the new “multifaceted government and economy we are seeking to create all of which was outlined very clearly in our manifesto”.
In her broadcast, Prime Minister Mottley said that given the composition of the new Parliament and in keeping with the provisions of the law that three members of the Senate appointed to the Cabinet, “we shall comply with the Constitution”.
The following is the list of the names of the new Cabinet.
“Prime Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment - Mia Mottley
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs - Dale Marshall
Minister of Education, Technological and Vocational Training and Leader of Government Business - Santia Bradshaw
Minister of Housing, Lands and Rural Development - George Payne
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Leader of Government Business in the Senate – Senator Dr Jerome Walcott
Minister of International Business and Industry – Ronald Toppin
Minister of Environment and National Beautification – Trevor Prescod
Minister of People Empowerment and Elder Affairs – Cynthia Forde
Minister of Tourism and International Transport – Kerrie Symmonds
Minister of Transport Works and Maintenance - Dr William Duguid
Minister of Health and Wellness – Jeffrey Bostic
Minister of Home Affairs – Edmund Hinkson
Minister of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce – Dwight Sutherland
Minister of Energy and Water Resources – Wilfred Abrahams
Minister in the Ministry of Finance – Ryan Straughn
Minister in the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Investment – Marsha Caddle
Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Trade – Sandra Husbands
Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations – Colin Jordan
Minister in the Ministry of Housing, Lands and Rural Development – Charles Griffith
Minister of Youth and Community Empowerment – Adrian Forde
Minister of Maritime Affairs and the Blue Economy – Kirk Humphrey
Minister of Agriculture and Food Security – Indar Weir
Minister in the Ministry of Transport Works and Maintenance – Peter Phillips
Minister of the Creative Economy, Culture and Sports – John King
Minister of Innovation, Science and Smart Technology – Senator Kay McConney
Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Public Affairs- Senator Lucille Moe