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• - - inGleaner Trinidad Correspondent! ti■ ' ■ ' . ! .PORT-OF-SPAIN, May 17: j tj .. The ' Governor-General Sir 0 Solomon Hochoy has' announceda Cabinet reshuffle here. Acting on the advice of the Prime Minister,'.- he • has . announced that John ■’0‘Halioran now,, in Geneva at the GATT conference will bePbivBh.ture; Industry. and Commerce has b*en given to L. M. Robinson,' fombt'F^tementary*'SecretJiLeJtaittiixe. -Minis.-, try; Mrs. Isabel Teshea: becomes th« first wbipan minister here, replacing Donald Granado—Am* .hasfadar*dgsigna'te~ln. -Venezuela ‘—in the Ministry of Health and.Housing, and A. A. Thompson and A- C. Alexis have been made Ministers-Without-Portfolios.tlXXC('diThompson will b» directly responsible to the Prime Minister for administration; ende]Alexis will be directly retfpons- ttjbla to the prime Minister for West IhdUn iftdrs.ResponsibilityitUdtlP1lt;D\vThe Prime . Minister has entrusted Thompson with responsi- j 11 bility under him for a. better ’ ..village programme.,, it., was., officially announced last night The new ministers will bring the • BCabinet number to fifteen,' ill■ -■U M. Robinson is a brother ni Ftnbnce Minister .A. ‘NVR. Rob- jinson/ •BThe reshuffle underlines the f• *concern- about petroleum, for the Government wants* to ensure that oil Industry continues to sustain the; future programmes of• iecohomic development And in addition to higher status for jli Thompson. Robinson and Alexis,-;? former parliamentary secretaries. ! they will receive a salary boost !lt;; from $rW.I.) 700 a month to jdi860. a month. j■ * • -The appointments leave only -tcthree parliamentary 'secretaries', i JjBasil Pitt, Victor Campbell and j ^Senator V-ema Crichiow.
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Kingston Gleaner
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Sat, May 18, 1963
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