Prime Minister @leehsienloong announces the new Cabinet — live-tweeting thread.
"This is a team that will lead Singapore through our current public health and economic crisis" as well as beyond #COVID19. Considerations of "continuity, exposure, and renewal" guided decisions.
Older ministers staying on to provide experience, while younger ministers are being rotated so they can gain "breadth and depth" in perspectives. Several junior office-holders and backbenchers are being promoted, plus fresh faces from #GE2020.
Heng Swee Keat continues as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister. Will also be Coordinating Minister for Economic Policies.
Lawrence Wong and Indranee Rajah as Second Ministers of MOF.
Teo Chee Hean and Tharman Shanmugaratnam will remain Senior Ministers, "weighing in with their views as needed". Teo still Coordinating Minister for National Security, Tharman still chairman of MAS and Coordinating Minister for Social Policies.
Gan Kim Yong continues as Minister for Health.
Chan Chun Sing remains as Minister for Trade and Industry, with continuing support from S Iswaran.
Josephine Teo will continue as Minister for Manpower.
"With a recession biting and retrenchments rising, MOM will be re-doubling its efforts to save jobs", also involved in getting migrant workers "safely housed, safely managed" and back to work.
Ng Eng Hen (Defence), Vivian Balakrishnan (Foreign Affairs, and Minister-in-Charge of Smart Nation initiatives), K Shanmugam (Home Affairs and Law) and S Iswaran (Communication and Information) all retain their current portfolions.
Lawrence Wong to replace Ong Ye Kung as Minister for Education. Wong will continue to co-chair the multi-ministry task-force on #COVID19.
Ong Ye Kung moves to be Minister for Transport.
Desmond Lee appointed Minister for National Development, replacing Lawrence Wong. Indranee Rajah appointed Second Minister in MND, while also being Second Minister in MOF and remaining as a Minister in the Prime Minister's Office on population matters.
Desmond Lee will still have a role in Ministry of Social and Family Development to continue some of the work underway there. But Masagos Zulkifli will take over as Minister for Social and Family Development, while also being appointed Second Minister at the Ministry of Health.
Masagos Zulkifli also continuing as minister in charge of Muslim Affairs.
Ministry of Environment and Water Resources to be renamed Ministry of Sustainability and ... (argh missed it). Grace Fu will be minister here.
Maliki Osman will be Second Minister at MFA and MOE, as well as Minister in Prime Minister's Office. Edwin Tong will be Minister for Culture, Community, and Youth, and Second Minister for Law.
(Okay, sorry but this is going a bit too fast for me now...)
Tan See Leng, new from #GE2020, is appointed Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Second Minister for Manpower and Second Minister for Trade and Industry, while Gan Siow Huang is Minister of State for Ministry of Education and Ministry of Manpower.
Tan Wu Meng, who was a senior parliamentary secretary for MFA and MTI, has asked to leave government HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (he remains an MP for Jurong GRC)
This was Ministry of Sustainability and Environment (MSE)
Here's the live update from @STcom for the bit that I missed:
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