Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe
By the Caribbean Journal staff
Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has announce a major Cabinet reshuffle.
The reshuffle comes under a condition of the recently-signed El Rancho Agreement, an accord between Haiti’s branches of government that sought to pave the way for long-delayed legislative elections.
Under the reshuffle, Lamothe retained his additional portfolio of planning, but a number of posts went to new Ministers.
The reshuffle also saw the return to the government of Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie, who resigned as Finance Minister last year but was returned to that position this week.
Foreign Minister Pierre Richard Casimir was among those who lost their positions, with Duly Brutus, Haiti’s former Permanent Ambassador to the Organization of American States, taking the role.
Haiti’s Consul General in Miami, Francois Guillaume II, was named Minister for Haitians Living Abroad.
Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin retained her role as Minister of Tourism.
Among those losing their positions was Josette Darguste, who had risen rapidly in the last few years from within the Tourism Ministry to become Minister of Culture and had recently added the portfolio of Communications. She was replaced by Monique Rocourt in the Culture Ministry.
The reshuffle, the third major shake-up under the Martelly-Lamothe administration, also included a new slate of Secretaries of State.
See the full new Cabinet below:
Laurent Lamothe — Planning and External Cooperation
Duly Brutus — Foreign Affairs
Jean Renel Sanon — Justice
Reginald Delva — Interior
Marie Carmelle Jean-Marie — Finance
Jacques Rousseau — Public Works, Transport and Communications
Thomas Jacques — Agriculture
Wilson Laleau — Trade and Industry
Stephanie Villedrouin — Tourism and Creative Industries
Nesmy Manigat — National Education and Vocational Training
Florence Duperval Guillaume — Public Health and Population
Monique Rocourt — Culture
Rudy Heriveaux — Communication
Yannick Mezile — Minister for the Status and Rights of Women
Lener Renauld — Defence
Himler Rebu — Youth, Sports and Civic Action
Francois Guillaume — Haitians Living Abroad
Marie Carmelle Rose Anne Auguste — Delegate to the Prime Minister for Human Rights
Marie Mimose Felix — Delegate to the PM for Promoting the Peasantry