# Monday 6th

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Monday 6</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> October</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> 2025</span>

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">**‘Major changes for 18 ministers as PM adjusts cabinet portfolios’**</span>

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</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Changes in ministers’ responsibilities have been made to most of the Cabinet, with Prime Minister </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Kamla</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Persad-Bissessar</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> now handling certain public assistance </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">programmes</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">, Homeland Security Minister Roger Alexander overseeing the prison system, and various frontline ministers’ responsibilities shifted to their colleagues.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">The Geriatric Adolescent Partnership </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Programme</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> (GAPP) formerly under the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, has now moved to the Ministry of the People, Social Development and Family Services. </span>

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000080;"><u>https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/major-changes-for-18-ministers-as-pm-adjusts-cabinet-portfolios-6.2.2417751.3107f2e556</u></span>](https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/major-changes-for-18-ministers-as-pm-adjusts-cabinet-portfolios-6.2.2417751.3107f2e556 "https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/major-changes-for-18-ministers-as-pm-adjusts-cabinet-portfolios-6.2.2417751.3107f2e556")

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Monday 6</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> October 2025</span>

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">**‘PM makes changes.. shifts around ministers’ portfolios’**</span>

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Prime Minister </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Kamla</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Persad-Bissessar</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> has shaken up her Cabinet — not by reshuffling her ministers, but by shifting responsibilities that fall under their purview.</span>

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Minister of the People, Social Development and Family Services </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Vandana</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Mohit</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">has now been assigned responsibility for the Geriatric Adolescent Partnership </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">Programme</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;">, which previously fell under the Ministry</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000000;"> of Sport and Youth Affairs.</span>

</td><td style="border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080; mso-style-textfill-fill-color: #000080;"><u>https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/pm-makes-changes/article\_bc5c4d41-cf90-4f27-bf5b-80cb7def5e37.html</u></span>](https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/pm-makes-changes/article_bc5c4d41-cf90-4f27-bf5b-80cb7def5e37.html "https://trinidadexpress.com/news/local/pm-makes-changes/article_bc5c4d41-cf90-4f27-bf5b-80cb7def5e37.html")

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