Akash Sama­roo

Po­lit­i­cal an­a­lyst Dr Shane Mo­hammed has giv­en Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar an 80 per cent rat­ing for her first year in of­fice, de­scrib­ing her lead­er­ship of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) as “out­stand­ing” and re­silient.

How­ev­er, he has warned that the rest of her Cab­i­net must tran­si­tion from “ac­tors” to “ac­tion­ers” to meet the Gov­ern­ment’s man­date, say­ing they are ul­ti­mate­ly putting too much of the bur­den on her. He said Per­sad-Bisses­sar and just eight Cab­i­net mem­bers are cur­rent­ly “car­ry­ing” the Gov­ern­ment, ar­gu­ing that the per­for­mance of the re­main­ing “non-per­form­ers” has dragged the ad­min­is­tra­tion’s over­all rat­ing down to 66.25 per cent.