Randy Horton has been sacked as Minister of Education. That lends some credence to the rumours that he was engaged in a leadership challenge.
El James will become the 7th (!) Minister of Education in the past 10 years, in an area of Government that is troubled and turbulent, and so terribly important. I wish him luck.
I wish that this didn’t smell so much like a political clearing of the decks rather than a real managerial shakeup. In the past two years, many of the PLP old guard have been shuffled out in favor of Ewartistas.
It is also unfortunate that the move comes on the same day that Minister James (with his old Environment hat on) stated that he would fight for Southlands to become a park. So that little saga continues.
Finally, PLP party whip and HOTT owner Glenn Blakeney will become the new Minister of Sports, Environment, and the Combined Imposition.