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Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has given every successful UNC candidate, bar one, a position in her Government.

Dr Aiyna Ali, who won the Princes Town seat, was not named among her Cabinet yesterday and is likely being saved for the position of Deputy Speaker of the House.

The Tobago People’s Party (TPP) Tobago candidates were also excluded from the Government, which has a total of 24 ministries; 25 substantive ministers including Kamla Persad-Bissessar as Prime Minister and John Jeremie as Attorney General (a Minister of Trade, Investment and Tourism is to be named); four ministers in ministries and six parliamentary secretaries.