Prime Minister has once gain reshuffled his cabinet, moving ministers around in what some describe as a a key move as the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) seeks to refine its communications machinery for national elections due next year.
Senator Dr. the Honorable Dana Morris Dixon who was a Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information, Skills and Digital Transformation replaces Robert Morgan as Information Minister.
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Dr. Dixon is a 2004 Fulbright Scholar and an alum of the University of the West Indies where she completed BSs. Economics (First Class Honours) and MSc. Government (Distinction). She is also a graduate of Josef Korbel School of International Studies where she completed a PhD in International Studies, as well as the executive program of the Harvard Business School.
Morgan has been appointed to oversee works in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation.
Previously, this portfolio was managed by Everald Warmington, who resigned from the Cabinet in February following controversial remarks suggesting he would withhold public funds from an elected People’s National Party councillor.
In other changes, Senator Abka Fitz-Henley has been designated as a parliamentary secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). A parliamentary secretary assists a senior minister in their duties.
According to an OPM statement, these changes will take effect immediately.
“The adjustments will assist the administration in more efficiently and effectively delivering its policies and programmes for the Jamaican people,” the OPM said.
This shift finalizes Morgan’s transition away from the central role in the government’s information and communication strategy, a system he was instrumental in developing following the JLP’s 2016 election victory. However, over the past two years, he faced significant internal pressure due to the administration’s communication challenges with the electorate. He resigned as chairman of the JLP’s public relations committee in April, nearly two months after the party’s lackluster performance in the February local government elections.
Morris Dixon has emerged as a respected member of the political executive, less than a year after her entry into national politics with a Cabinet assignment. She and Fitz-Henley, a former broadcast journalist with Nationwide News Network, were appointed to the Senate in May 2023.
