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that the party’s manifesto had listed international cooperation and foreign relations as very important for the new administration.
“So working on our foreign diplomacy, working on our economic cooperation will be vital…” the minister said.
Describing himself as an average Guyanese citizen, the new minister said he grew up in the home of educators and had previously served in the military and also in the private sector and academia. The ministerial portfolio is his “fourth career”.
“I have been all of my life here in Guyana so I think I have a lot more to serve this government. It’s a learning curve for me but I have a team at the ministry, there is a structure there already so I will rely on all of the good help I can get from the ministry and make sure we can satisfy the needs of the people of Guyana,” Minister Todd said.
The new Minister of the Public Service Sonia Parag said she would first have a meeting of her heads of departments to make it clear as to what she expects and also to find out the status of the ministry in terms of progress.
Parag grew up on the Essequibo Coast and gained a place at Queen’s College but instead attended President’s College after which she read for a law degree at the University of Guyana before moving to the Hugh Wooding Law School where he successfully completed the law programme to become an attorney-at-law.
She has been in private practice since 2007.
Politics is not new to her in the sense that her father, the late attorneyat-law, Hukumchand, was a member of the PNC, and she laughingly commented that politics may be hereditary for her. Her motivation to enter politics was the need to assist Guyanese in any way she can through service.
Croal told Stabroek News that based on the manifesto commitments made to the people of Guyana during the party’s campaigning days, he steps into his new position with the intention of expanding the housing sector and providing safer water for the country. He stressed that the housing sector is a very important one for the PPP/C, adding that most importantly, before any work could begin, he would have to settle into his ministry and examine what was previously done so he could move on from there.
“The housing sector is a very important sector for our party. We are also going to ensure that as part of the spin- off, the infrastructure benefits too. We are committed to examine the cost of building material etc. In terms of our water, we did commit that we will ensure that we have safe water right across our country. And we will work towards it,” the new minister of Housing and Water assured.
Walrond, former Magistrate and advisor to former Minister of Public Telecommunications (MoPT), Cathy Hughes, was the corporate secretary of the telecommunications agency, and she now takes on the role of Minister of Tourism and Industry.
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