Portfolio realignment seen as

The Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to re­as­sign re­spon­si­bil­i­ties among min­is­ters has drawn mixed re­ac­tions. Some view it as a rou­tine ad­min­is­tra­tive ad­just­ment, while oth­ers see it as a sig­nal of the Gov­ern­ment’s po­lit­i­cal and pol­i­cy pri­or­i­ties.

For­mer en­er­gy min­is­ter Kevin Ram­nar­ine said the changes should not be seen as un­usu­al or as a Cab­i­net reshuf­fle.

“That’s par for the course in the five-year cy­cle of a gov­ern­ment,” Ram­nar­ine said, not­ing that gov­ern­ments of­ten re­align re­spon­si­bil­i­ties to bet­ter achieve their ob­jec­tives.