Office of the Premier Announces Cabinet Appointments
The Office of the Premier this afternoon (Friday, 9 May) announced the assignment of responsibilities to Ministers in the newly formed National Coalition For Caymanians (NCFC) administration as follows:
Honourable André Ebanks, MP - Premier and Minister for Financial Services and Commerce
Honourable Gary Rutty, MP - Deputy Premier, Minister for Tourism and Trade Development
Honourable Katherine Ebanks-Wilks, MP - Minister for Health, Environment and Sustainability
Honourable Rolston Anglin, JP, MP - Minister for Finance and Economic Development and Minister for Education and Training
Honourable Isaac Rankine, JP, MP - Minister for Social Development and Innovation and Minister for Youth, Sports, Culture and Heritage
Honourable Jay Ebanks, MP - Minister for Planning, Lands, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure
Honourable Nickolas DaCosta, JP, MP - Minister for District Administration and Home Affairs
Honourable Michael Myles, MP - Minister for Caymanian Employment and Immigration
Premier Ebanks expressed confidence in the capabilities of the ministers stating that their appointments are a strategic move towards the administration’s goals to achieve economic and social transformation for the Caymanians. “My Cabinet colleagues and I look forward to working together to build a prosperous future for Caymanians. We are very eager to begin addressing the needs of our people in a way that will positively uplift them now and years to come. It will be a privilege for us to work alongside the hardworking and dedicated members of the Civil Service to achieve our goals and to make the lives of those we serve better,” he emphasised.
The Premier met individually with the Deputy Premier as well as each Minister and Parliamentary Secretary to confirm the subjects they were being assigned.
The following Parliamentary Secretaries have been appointed to support Ministers in their work:
- Honourable Wayne Panton, JP, MP – Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Caymanian Employment and Immigration; Infrastructure; Health, Environment and Sustainability; Financial Services and Commerce. Not pictured. He will receive his appointment upon his return to the country.
- Ms. Heather Bodden, OCI, Cert. Hon., JP, MP - Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Social Development; Education and Training; Tourism.
- Mrs. Julie Hunter, JP, MP – Parliamentary Secretary responsible for Planning, Lands, Agriculture, Housing and Infrastructure; Education and Training; Culture and Heritage.
“The full support and collective efforts of the entire NCFC team will be required to resolve the issues our people have elected us to address. I therefore wish to thank and congratulate our three Parliamentary Secretaries on their appointments,” Premier Ebanks noted.
Deputy Governor, Honourable Franz Manderson extended well wishes to the premier, ministers and parliamentary secretaries on behalf of the Civil Service noting, “We are happy to welcome the new Cabinet and to assure you that the Civil Service continues to pledge itself to fulfilling its mission. That mission is to support the elected government by delivering caring, modern and customer-centred public services and programmes, which deliver value for money”.
He further stated, “We have been working during the pre-election period to facilitate the smooth handover of power to any incoming government and we now stand ready to help our ministers and parliamentary secretaries settle in. As a Civil Service, we will be working very hard, as we have done in the past, to deliver on the new government’s priorities.”
