Rachael Es­pinet

Twen­ty-one new Gov­ern­ment Min­is­ters and one Par­lia­ment Sec­re­tary were sworn in­to of­fice this morn­ing as the new Cab­i­net for Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment ad­min­is­tra­tion.

Out of these 22 ap­point­ments, there were six Sen­a­to­r­i­al ap­point­ments.

The swear­ing in cer­e­mo­ny for the new Cab­i­net took place at Queen's Hall, St Ann's be­fore Pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Car­mona.

Prime Min­is­ter, Dr Kei­th Row­ley said he is tak­ing per­son­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the new Cab­i­net.

"We are here to serve all the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go, and as Prime Min­is­ter of this coun­try, I in­tend to hold every sin­gle one of them to the oath of of­fice," Row­ley said.

Row­ley not­ed that a num­ber of the peo­ple he ap­point­ed to the Cab­i­net re­in­forces his com­mit­ments to give young peo­ple a promi­nent place in the Gov­ern­ment.

"We have put the af­fairs of the state in the hands of the young peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go," he said.

Row­ley then called on cit­i­zens to adopt a spir­it of vol­un­teerism where peo­ple will­ing­ly give back to the coun­try.

"I want to ap­peal to the na­tion to bring back a sense of vol­un­teerism...Not every­thing you do should car­ry a pay cheque. Let us get rid of the gimme gimme at­ti­tude. Let us be con­fi­dent that what we have done in the dark can be de­fend­ed in the light," Row­ley said.

On Wednes­day, Row­ley, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al Faris Al-Rawi and Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty re­tired Ma­jor Gen­er­al Ed­mund Dil­lon were sworn in­to of­fice. The Cab­i­net will com­prise of 23 mem­bers.

Oth­er suc­cess­ful can­di­dates, Glen­da Jen­nings-Smith, Es­mond Forde, Adri­an Leonce and Dr Lovell Fran­cis did not get any Cab­i­net po­si­tions.

The fol­low­ing is a list of the new gov­ern­ment Cab­i­net:

1. Sen­a­tor Clarence Ramb­harat, Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture and Land Re­sources

2. MP Stu­art Young, Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs

3. MP Max­ie Cuffie, Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions

4. MP Nyan Gads­by-Dol­ly, Min­is­ter of Com­mu­ni­ty, Cul­ture and the Arts

5. MP An­tho­ny Gar­cia, Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion

6. MP Nicole Olivierre, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy Af­fairs

7. MP Colm Im­bert, Min­is­ter of Fi­nance

8. Sen­a­tor Den­nis Moses, Min­is­ter of Cari­com and For­eign Af­fairs

9. MP Ter­rence Deyals­ingh, Min­is­ter of Health

10. MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment

11. Sen­a­tor Jen­nifer Bap­tiste-Primus, Min­ster of Labour and Small En­ter­pris­es De­vel­op­ment

12. MP Camille Robin­son-Reg­is, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and Sus­tain­able De­vel­op­ment

13. MP Ran­dall Mitchell, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion

14. MP An­cil An­toine, Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties

15. Sen­a­tor Franklin Khan, Min­is­ter of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment

16. MP Cher­rie-Ann Crichlow-Cock­burn, Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices

17. MP Dar­ryl Smith, Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs

18. MP Sham­fa Cud­joe, Min­is­ter of Tourism

19. Sen­a­tor Paula Gopee-Scoon, Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try

20. MP Fitzger­ald Hinds, Min­is­ter of Works and Trans­port

21. MP Ayan­na Web­ster Roy, Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter

22. Sen­a­tor Avinash Singh, Par­lia­ment Sec­re­tary in the Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture

23. MP Faris Al-Rawi,At­tor­ney Gen­er­al

24. MP Ed­mund Dil­lon, Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty