Police Record in the US Leads to Cancellation of Senator Simonnette’s Swearing In.

The swearing in of Senator Garvin Simonnette as Public Administration Minister has been cancelled. Confirmation of this came via the Office of the Prime Minister’s social media page.

Short­ly af­ter the gov­ern­ment an­nounced its de­ci­sion to ap­point Si­mon­ette – who is a gov­ern­ment sen­a­tor, as Marlene Mc­Don­ald’s re­place­ment, pic­tures be­gan cir­cu­lat­ing of a 2014 mugshot of Si­mon­ette from the Bre­vard Coun­ty’s po­lice of­fi­cer in Ok­la­homa, USA.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr. Keith Rowley will act in the Ministerial port­fo­lio until a new ap­point­ment is de­cid­ed, ac­cord­ing to the post.