Gail Alexan­der

A re­treat to re­view the per­for­mance of min­is­ters will take place in To­ba­go next week, when Gov­ern­ment will al­so launch its To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) elec­tion cam­paign. This was dis­closed by UNC chair­man Jack Warn­er yes­ter­day. Gov­ern­ment will hold its week­ly Cab­i­net meet­ing and go in­to a re­treat from May 29 to 31 in To­ba­go and launch its THA cam­paign with the To­ba­go Or­gan­i­sa­tion of the Peo­ple (TOP) on June 2.

Warn­er was speak­ing to re­porters be­tween yes­ter­day's sit­ting of Par­lia­ment. He was com­ment­ing on the Prime Min­is­ter's an­nounce­ment at Thurs­day's gov­ern­ment ral­ly that she will be call­ing in her team and state board mem­bers to eval­u­ate their per­for­mance and re­con­fig­ure the Cab­i­net.

Speak­ing to re­porters, Warn­er said: "It's a very strate­gic move. We have to­day be­gun our third year, mid-term year, and she may have her ob­jec­tives in mind and her vi­sion might be fixed on cer­tain ar­eas and she might be­lieve she's not get­ting what she want­ed and in oth­er ar­eas she might be get­ting it."

Warn­er said he felt the re­view might in­volve some of the key peo­ple with whom the PM may have some dif­fi­cul­ty or who she may want to ap­praise. He added: "But I'm quite sure she'll call some of us and ask us to ac­count. I'm not sure she'll call all 29 of us, but I can't say. "But as I said I have no prob­lems at all with all of that. I think it's the cor­rect thing to do."

He said no one should feel they own a min­istry. "There­fore she's ask­ing us to say why we should keep the min­istry or why not, and we in turn can tell her some of the prob­lems we ex­pe­ri­ence, and why we couldn't per­form as we want­ed to." On his shift from the Works Min­istry in the last reshuf­fle in Ju­ly 2011, Warn­er said he may have been up­set, but: "In pol­i­tics noth­ing is per­ma­nent and as soon as we be­gin to in­ter­nalise that, the bet­ter for us all, in­clud­ing me. I'm more ready now and a lit­tle bit wis­er now to ex­pect what­ev­er the PM feels best for the ef­fi­cient con­duct of her gov­ern­ment."

Warn­er dis­missed the most re­cent FI­FA is­sue, say­ing he'd moved on from FI­FA. Speak­ing to re­porters be­fore Par­lia­ment, Labour Min­is­ter Er­rol Mc Leod, who re­tained his port­fo­lio in the last Cab­i­net reshuf­fle, said: "You know (re­con­fig­ur­ing) is the Prime Min­is­ter's call and the Prime Min­is­ter has the pre­rog­a­tive to do that at any time or as of­ten as she might want to do it."

He said he had con­cerns about the amount of work yet to be done and if there are re­sources to do it as quick­ly as he would have liked.