Three Ministers of State Under Prime Minister Briceño

As mentioned earlier, Prime Minister John Briceño now has three ministers of state under his wing, including senior ministers Dolores Balderamos-Garcia and Rodwell Ferguson. How does Ferguson feel about his new role? Unfortunately, he declined our request for an interview today. However, Prime Minister Briceño did share his reasoning behind appointing three ministers of state under his leadership.

 

Prime Minister, John Briceño

“It is not a matter of a political grave yard, Minister Dolores made it clear that this is her last election and she will be retiring. So, I felt like what we did with Mr. Price, we make her a senior minister. Because of the size of the Cabinet it was difficult to bring her as a senior minister. But what I did is to bring her as a senior minister of state with Cabinet privileges, meaning she can attend Cabinet meetings. We will also, I give her a special task to be in charge of the National Aids Commission and the National Honors Committee. She also expressed in working with the elderly. So I have already spoken with minister Garcia that Dolores will work with her and she is already happy. And by Minister Ferguson to work in the ministry with me, what I plan to do is use him to do special task. If there is a issue going on in the country or whatever I will say please go take a look at it and see how we can solve these problems.”