Rhon­dor Dowlat

Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar yes­ter­day ques­tioned why the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and the Min­is­ters of Health, Ed­u­ca­tion and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty were not changed in yes­ter­day's reshuf­fle.

"They have been colos­sal fail­ures in their re­spec­tive port­fo­lios and have yet es­caped be­ing re­moved. A cloud re­mains over the head of At­tor­ney Gen­er­al (Faris) Al-Rawi for his han­dling of the Mal­colm Jones and oth­er fi­as­cos," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said in a re­lease.

"This is a clas­sic case of reshuf­fling bush cards. It is now ap­par­ent that Dr Row­ley does not have a team of com­pe­tent, knowl­edge­able and ex­pe­ri­enced pro­fes­sion­als from whom to se­lect Cab­i­net Min­is­ters. Suit­ably qual­i­fied pro­fes­sion­als clear­ly do not want to be a part of the fail­ing Row­ley regime," she added.

"The coun­try has pre­vi­ous­ly seen Franklin Khan at work and has not been im­pressed by his per­for­mance. His pro­mo­tion to the crit­i­cal Min­istry of En­er­gy and En­er­gy Af­fairs does not pro­vide any com­fort of vi­sion­ary lead­er­ship to im­prove the ac­tiv­i­ties in this vi­tal sec­tor," Per­sad-Bisses­sar said.

"The re­moval of Fitzger­ald Hinds as Min­is­ter of Works was an­tic­i­pat­ed in light of the ab­sence of any in­fra­struc­tur­al works in the first 13 months of the Row­ley regime. His re­place­ment, Ro­han Sinanan, has been hand­ed a ma­jor min­is­te­r­i­al plum with­out any prop­er ex­pe­ri­ence in pub­lic ser­vice," she said.

Dur­ing a live tele­phone in­ter­view dur­ing the CNC3's news­cast, an­chor Gol­da Lee-Bruce asked Per­sad-Bisses­sar about crit­i­cisms that would seem to make her state­ment hyp­o­crit­i­cal be­cause when she was in gov­ern­ment she reshuf­fled her Cab­i­net about nine times.

Per­sad-Bisses­sar re­spond­ed say­ing: "I did reshuf­fle sev­er­al times and every sin­gle time it was Dr Row­ley who bashed the par­ty for the changes that were made. I saw it as a Gov­ern­ment is­sue at that time but giv­en that Dr Row­ley is in charge he has all the an­swers. He has failed mis­er­ably in bring­ing the changes promised on the cam­paign plat­form."