Dominica: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is expected to soon announce a Cabinet reshuffle in keeping with comments he made at the swearing in of his Cabinet in January 2010 following the December 2009 general elections, the Dominica News Online reported.
Twenty-seven months later, DNO said that a Cabinet reshuffle is imminent.
“Dr. Kenneth Darroux, a medical doctor is expected to replace Julius Timothy as health minister and there are expected to be changes in community development, foreign affairs, agriculture, Labour and public works, with Charles Savarin expected to go on retirement,” a source said to the DNO.
According to the source, “The Prime Minister is not happy with how things are going and as he stated at the swearing in ceremony, a reshuffle would come so that should not be a surprise at all.”
Not wanting to go into specifics of the proposed changes, the source disclosed that “it was expected to have taken effect in March but has been delayed for various reasons.”
The DNO said that inside the Skerrit led administration, no one is prepared to speak about the impending reshuffle. Back in January 2010 the prime minister said he was not going to waste his time “in this cabinet; we have a lot of work to do; this is a very serious matter; we dealing with a very difficult environment; men must not just come with a tie and a shirt and say they are ministers, you have to roll up your sleeve and put your boots on and go in the field and solve the problems of the people of Dominica and to create better opportunities for them.” At that ceremony, he also pointed out the likelihood of “a cabinet reshuffle in the future.”
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