Minister Hastings-Williams to be appointed Minister of Public Affairs

Aug 17, 2017 News

President David Granger, yesterday announced that Minister within the Ministry of Communities,

Ministry of Communities, Dawn Hastings-Williams

Dawn Hastings-Williams will assume the portfolio of Minister of Public Affairs in the Ministry of the Presidency with effect from September 1, 2017.
This, he said, is part of a continuous process of re-balancing Government’s work with the aim of ensuring efficiency and the effective delivery of services.
“There is a continuous process of ensuring that Government works well and we need to make sure that we put our best effort where those efforts will have an impact on Government.
Minister Hastings-Williams coming to the Ministry of the Presidency is a continuation of that process of re-balancing the Ministry of the Presidency,” the Head of State explained in a government release.
Minister Hastings-Williams will be responsible for oversight of the sections, which fall under the President’s Secretariat, and will also hold responsibility for the administration of the National Endowment for Science and Technology (NEST) Programme and hinterland and rural relations.
“It is a question of my own judgement. I continuously have to evaluate the workload of every Ministry… She is a very experienced Parliamentarian and I have every confidence that she will be able to assist the Minister of State, the Prime Minister and myself in bearing the work load in the Ministry of the Presidency,” President Granger said.
He further explained that as part of this continuous process, he found it prudent to appoint Minister Catherine Hughes as Minister of Public Telecommunications, a portfolio, which previously fell under the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.
Similarly, following careful consideration and investigations in the Ministry of Education, responsibility for the New Opportunity Corps was shifted to the Ministry of Social Protection.

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