Guyana president to replace foreign trade minister
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| Published on Saturday, November 22, 2008 |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana's Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation, Dr Henry Jeffrey, has been dropped from the Cabinet and is likely to take up an ambassador position in Suriname before the end of the year.
A senior official at the office of the president said following cabinet on Tuesday, the president held discussion with minister Jeffery and told him of the decision to replace him
Reports are that Dr Jeffrey and President Bharrat Jagdeo have been having differences of views over time. A source close to the Office of the President said that the most recent clash occurred during discussions on the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union.
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Guyana’s Foreign Trade and International Cooperation Minister, Dr Henry Jeffrey
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However, with Jeffrey’s wife being a lawyer in the Chambers of the law firm Cameron and Shepherd, people close to the issue of Dr Jeffrey’s dropping from Cabinet said that it would be unlikely that she would be willing to pick up her roots and leave with her husband.
Dr Jeffrey a former member of the now main opposition people’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) was appointed a minister in 1992 as a member of the Civic component of the Government after Dr Cheddi Jagan had won the elections. He was appointed Minister of Labour.
He then served as Minister of Education, having replaced another member of the Civic component of the Government, Dr Dale Bisnauth. In the wake of the 2006 elections, he was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade and International Co-operation, after Minister Clement Rohee was appointed Minister of Home Affairs.
He was reportedly responding to a question about whether Dr Jeffrey had been sent home. And indeed, Jeffrey remained in office Thursday, pending the formal announcement of President Jagdeo’s decision.
This move is the second such in less than three months by Jagdeo who is serving in his final term as president.
In September last the president had announced that the housing minister Harrynarine Nawbatt will be removed from his post and will be posted as ambassador to Brazil.
Nawbatt will be leaving for his new posting before the end of the year.
President Jagdeo during his previous term had made a major cabinet shake up and had said in the past on several occasions that he will review the works of his ministers in the middle of the five year period following elections in 2006. | | | | Reads : 535 |
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