Prime Min­is­ter Mia Mot­t­ley Tues­day an­nounced a Cab­i­net reshuf­fle, hours af­ter her In­dus­try, In­no­va­tion, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy Min­is­ter Mar­sha Cad­dle re­signed, com­plain­ing that she had reached the point where “prin­ci­ples” no longer align.

In a state­ment, Mot­t­ley, the coun­try’s first fe­male head of gov­ern­ment since lead­ing the rul­ing Bar­ba­dos Labour Par­ty (BLP) to a con­vinc­ing vic­to­ry in 2018, said there would be changes in a num­ber of key min­is­te­r­i­al port­fo­lios aimed at strength­en­ing the gov­ern­ment’s fo­cus on na­tion­al pri­or­i­ties.

She said con­se­quent up­on a re­quest of Min­is­ter of State in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al (with fo­cus on Crime Pre­ven­tion) Corey Layne to be re­lieved of his du­ties for per­son­al rea­sons,  the Min­istry of Peo­ple Em­pow­er­ment and El­der Af­fairs will now take re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for crime pre­ven­tion, ef­fec­tive Feb­ru­ary 26.