eGov Monitor, 3 Apr 2009
THE Cabinet changes announced last week bring in a 'transition team' that signals that a younger team is in charge, but with old hands still on deck to steer Singapore forward.
The mid-term reshuffle is based on current office-holders and MPs, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who indicated that the core of Singapore's fourth generation leadership has yet to be fully assembled.
Explaining Singapore's style of incremental rather than big bang changes, he told reporters at the Istana yesterday: 'This reshuffle is another step forward in the long process of self-renewal. It's a continuing exercise.
'Each step is careful, measured, but cumulatively and progressively over the years, the effect is of a substantial decisive change.'
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