And, keeping it on Cabinet, we also asked the PM about the departure of his Minister of State Chris Coye. He quietly left public office on September 30th and returned to his law practice. The PM hadn't given an explanation until today:
Jules Vasquez
"Sir. Chris Coye, your number one draft pick. You worked so hard to get him to join the government, and he left after a mere six months."
John Briceno, Prime Minister
"No, it's not a mere six months. He started he joined the government in November of 2020. And, the reason why he was the last to be named if you remember, it was because we were trying to find a way where we could accommodate the find some way we could keep him to work with the government."
"But realizing that he has to go back to his law firm, just like his previous foreign minister, former foreign minister, Eamon Courtenay, and I understand that I mean, if they're not there, they don't produce like, for instance, in my in my instance, you know, it's a company and, you know, you give you your direction or your vision and then you move on."
"You have people running it. But in a law firm, like an accountant or like a journalist like yourself, you can't send nobody to do your job so and it's the same thing, like with him, he has to go back to his his law firm. What's important is that we will continue. He'll continue to work with us, more in an advisory role, so we could continue to keep him with the finances."
"The Ministry of Finance rolling. I'm in a position, I'm at the point of probably naming a small team where we could be looking at, finance, you know, probably two, three times a month to ensure that we can keep things tight the way we've been doing."
