Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley yes­ter­day played his cards close to his chest about his im­pend­ing Cab­i­net reshuf­fle.The ques­tion about re-align­ing his min­is­ters was thrown at Row­ley three times while he spoke on i95.5 fm ra­dio, but on each oc­ca­sion he avoid­ed the top­ic.

It was the prime min­is­ter who first spoke about Cab­i­net changes dur­ing an in­ter­view on the an­niver­sary of his ad­min­is­tra­tion. He said those changes are ex­pect­ed af­ter the Bud­get was read. The Bud­get is ex­pect­ed in the last week of Sep­tem­ber.Host Na­tal­ie Ligoure asked Row­ley what was his ap­praisal of his tal­ent and min­is­ters af­ter one year in Gov­ern­ment.

Row­ley stat­ed that while peo­ple come for­ward to get se­lect­ed and elect­ed in the po­lit­i­cal are­na, "the Gov­ern­ment has a lot of peo­ple in it who are not ex­pe­ri­enced. But it is a par­tic­u­lar­ly dif­fi­cult time for the coun­try."He said while min­istries are get­ting up to speed, not all were up to speed.

Probed by Ligoure which min­istry was falling be­hind, Row­ley said "I am not go­ing to get in that con­ver­sa­tion with you."

To­wards the end of his 90-minute dis­cus­sion, Row­ley was again asked if he would con­sid­er for­mer min­is­ter of na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty Gary Grif­fith as part of his Cab­i­net, Row­ley replied "I told you I am not dis­cussing the Cab­i­net with you."

How­ev­er, be­fore Row­ley ex­it­ed the stu­dio, he was asked by talk show host and for­mer gov­ern­ment min­is­ter Ralph Maraj if there would be any ad­just­ments to the Cab­i­net, to which he replied, "Why are you so ob­sessed with that? It doesn't mat­ter. It is in­di­vid­u­als."

Row­ley said what should be con­cern­ing peo­ple was what the Gov­ern­ment was do­ing to im­pact on the prob­lem.