Nine cabinet ministers appointed

prime minister the honourable philip davis appointing cabinet members today noting that their experience combined with innovation expertise and a willingness to see things anew will serve the bahamian people with integrity and a strong sense of purpose arson jessica brown has more on this in tonight's top story those nine newly appointed ministers are as follows senator ryan pinder attorney general and minister of legal affairs fred mitchell minister of foreign affairs and the public service glenis hannah martin minister of education technical and vocational training alfred sayers minister of works and utilities dr michael darvill minister of health and wellness senator michael halkidis minister of economic affairs and senate leader of government business clay sweden minister of agriculture marine resources and family island affairs wayne monroe minister of national security and jomo campbell minister of state for legal affairs now after the ministers received their instruments of appointments prime minister philip davis said each of them were hand-picked because of their knowledge and skill they are the initial members of a cabinet which will reflect the breadth and depth of the competencies and characteristics of our team experience combined with innovation expertise combined with a willingness to see things are new integrity and a strong sense of purpose they're receiving these appointments because of their determination to get things done several of those ministers indicated that they will be meeting with their respective ministries in the morning to map out the way forward tomorrow morning i would be at the ministry of health first of all getting a panoramic view of what is happening i would speak with the experts and after speaking with the experts we would be able to make an assessment of where we are and what would be some of the first initial protocols that we will have to implement to begin now to move swiftly to get the pandemic under control towards the end of the last plp administration i was a part of the parole and re-entry committee and we looked at jazza parole re-entry preventing recidivism and a lot of it was also directed toward preventing crime in the beginning there was no action on that report of archbishop gomez and rev patrick paul were the chairpersons i will see where that is on the on the shelf take it off the shelf dust it off and reacquaint myself with the recommendations meantime governor general his excellency sir ca smith is encouraging bahamians to unite and put party politics aside at least for the next five years instead of worrying about tomorrow let us unite ourselves and let us together make a better bahamas sanchesca brown eyewitness news

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Published: Mon Sep 20 2021