A quartet of new ministers are set to receive their instruments of office on Wednesday in the Mia Mottley administration to “wrestle down” a series of challenges that are “within our capacity to fight”, as the Prime Minister told the party faithful over the weekend.But this latest round of ministerial musical chairs seems more of a homecoming as the First Among Equals moves to match professional and political experience with ministerial portfolios.Senior Minister Senator Jerome Walcott returns to the Ministry of Health, as the surgeon who became the nation’s chief diplomat expected to wield a deft scalpel in the nation’s largest and most notoriously difficult ministry.His predecessor, Ian Gooding-Edghill MP, a former executive with some of the island’s leading hotels, also moves to a presumed “home” as he leaves the MOH for the Ministry of Tourism and International Transport.Senator Lisa Cummins, a former diplomat and trade expert shifts from Tourism to the Ministry of Energy and Business Development with responsibility for International Business and Trade. Also returning to a presumed old stomping ground is Senior Minister Kerrie Symmonds as he takes control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where he was apprenticed to former Senior Minister Billie Miller.
