Doctor Zabaneh Removed from Ministry of Education

Doctor Louis Zabaneh, who previously served as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Education, has now taken on a new role as the Minister of Indigenous Constitution, Religious Affairs, and Transport. Given his significant contributions to curriculum reform over the past four years, why wasn’t he appointed as the main Minister of Education? Should Doctor Zabaneh feel disappointed by this decision? We posed these questions to the Prime Minister.

 

Prime Minister John Briceño

“There are many things I look at when I am trying to appoint ministers. So, I don’t think that Dr. Zabaneh should anyway feel that. We have actually elevated him, made him a full minister. Mr. Requena has moved from Rural Transformation to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Minister Fonesca holds on to the post of Culture, something he is passionate about. He is also passionate about education, that is why when I asked him to take over foreign affairs, he wanted to finish the work he started at education before exiting an concentrating on the ministry of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Culture and Immigration, which is now part of the ministry. I had to hold it on for a little while until he can assume all of those ministries.”