As the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly ex­ec­u­tive ap­proach­es its sec­ond year in of­fice af­ter its 2021 THA elec­tion win, Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris says it is time for a reshuf­fle of sec­re­taries.

How­ev­er, Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine has told him the is­sue is not his busi­ness.

In Jan­u­ary, Au­gus­tine said a reshuf­fle was on the cards and had promised it would take ef­fect at the end of that month.

Speak­ing at a me­dia con­fer­ence yes­ter­day, Mor­ris said the is­land has been stag­nant for al­most two years, as there is no record of any ma­jor in­vest­ment, projects or de­vel­op­men­tal works.

“The time has come for the Chief Sec­re­tary to re­view the func­tions of all the var­i­ous di­vi­sions of the THA and per­haps do some reshuf­fling. There are To­bag­o­ni­ans who are out there and ex­pe­ri­enced, will­ing able and ca­pa­ble.

“Now might be the time for us to take a true all of To­ba­go ap­proach to en­sure that we get the job done by peo­ple who are ca­pa­ble, by peo­ple who are com­pe­tent and by peo­ple who are com­mit­ted,” Mor­ris said.

Send­ing a mes­sage di­rect­ly to Au­gus­tine, Mor­ris said: “You (Au­gus­tine) promised us a reshuf­fle since last Christ­mas and I’m ask­ing you to gift the peo­ple of To­ba­go who are wait­ing to ex­hale.”

In an im­me­di­ate re­sponse, how­ev­er, Au­gus­tine told Guardian Me­dia that Mor­ris had no busi­ness call­ing on him to make ex­ec­u­tive coun­cil re­arrange­ments.

Au­gus­tine asked, “How is the con­struct of the ex­ec­u­tive any busi­ness of Mr Mor­ris? Mi­nor­i­ty Lead­ers have no say in that process. That is be­tween the peo­ple of To­ba­go and the par­ty and ex­ec­u­tive I lead.

“Why doesn’t he call on his po­lit­i­cal leader to get rid of Min­is­ter (Fitzger­ald) Hinds and oth­er non-per­form­ers in the Cab­i­net? What hap­pens in PNM is his busi­ness. What hap­pens on my team isn’t any of his busi­ness.”