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Saturday, March 15, 2025

Cabinet concludes two-day retreat

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1136 days ago
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Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley may be speak­ing ahead about Cab­i­net’s re­cent­ly-con­clud­ed two-day re­treat.

This was hint­ed yes­ter­day by Gov­ern­ment sources.

The re­treat for Gov­ern­ment mem­bers which be­gan on Tues­day fin­ished around 6 pm that day and yes­ter­day’s fi­nal leg was on­go­ing yes­ter­day evening.

Min­is­ters and oth­er of­fi­cials were ex­pect­ed to speak on the “de­liv­er­ables” in their Min­istries, de­tail­ing plans for Gov­ern­ment’s path ahead.

Yes­ter­day Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Min­is­ter Symon de No­bre­ga didn’t re­ply to queries on de­ci­sions, out­comes or oth­er de­vel­op­ments - in­clud­ing if a reshuf­fle would oc­cur as some have spec­u­lat­ed.

It’s un­cer­tain if Row­ley would hold a me­dia brief­ing af­ter to­day’s Cab­i­net meet­ing or if he would speak about the re­treat at a pub­lic meet­ing that the PNM is sched­uled to hold on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Row­ley is al­so sched­uled to speak to­mor­row morn­ing in Par­lia­ment to pi­lot a bill on whistle­blow­er law.

This seeks to “com­bat cor­rup­tion and oth­er wrong­do­ings by en­cour­ag­ing and fa­cil­i­tat­ing dis­clo­sures of im­prop­er con­duct in the pub­lic and pri­vate sec­tor, to pro­tect per­sons mak­ing those dis­clo­sures from detri­men­tal ac­tion, to reg­u­late the re­ceiv­ing, in­ves­ti­gat­ing or oth­er­wise deal­ing with dis­clo­sure of im­prop­er con­duct and to pro­vide for oth­er mat­ters con­nect­ed there­with.”

On the agen­da last Fri­day, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds was list­ed to pi­lot the bill. But the lat­est agen­da showed it will be pi­lot­ed by the PM.

The Op­po­si­tion has sig­nalled it will raise whistle­blow­er is­sues con­cern­ing cer­tain state com­pa­nies when the de­bate takes place.


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