Omar Figueroa to be appointed a Minister of State

Posted: Friday, January 9, 2015. 5:17 pm CST.

Omar Figueroa

Friday, January 9, 2015. PATRICK E. JONES Reporting: Less than a week after winning the bye election in the Cayo North constituency, Omar Figueroa is headed for a Cabinet-level post.

Today, the government press office issues a release announcing that Prime Minister Dean Barrow at a special meeting informed Ministers that he intends to appoint Figueroa as a Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister.

The official release says that Figueroa will be sworn in on Monday by the Governor General.

He will take the oath of office as a memebr of the House of Representative at the next sitting of the lower house of Parliament.

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