Gail Alexan­der

?The Gov­ern­ment's boss has spo­ken–and she's keep­ing Jack Warn­er as Works Min­is­ter, Fi­fa post and all.

Speak­ing to re­porters at Knowsley Build­ing yes­ter­day, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar de­tailed her de­ci­sion to keep Warn­er as Works Min­is­ter, af­ter Gov­ern­ment's re­ceipt of le­gal opin­ions con­cern­ing his Fi­fa post. Per­sad-Bisses­sar said: "The three le­gal opin­ions spoke with one voice...There was no dis­sent and there was noth­ing wrong with Mr Warn­er hold­ing the port­fo­lio of Works Min­is­ter and Fi­fa vice-pres­i­dent.

"I had said I would await the opin­ions and I'd al­so said it was a mat­ter of law and ethics," she said. "In law, ob­vi­ous­ly there is noth­ing that is wrong with it. In terms of ethics, it has to do with work eth­ic and if it is that Mr Warn­er is ca­pa­ble of per­form­ing his func­tions of Works Min­is­ter and those are not im­paired in terms of work, then I see no rea­sons why Mr Warn­er should be called up­on to choose, or whether I, as Prime Min­is­ter, should ask him to step down as Works Min­is­ter–so he will re­main as Min­is­ter of Works."