Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday made further changes to ministerial arrangements in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation.

Daryl Vaz, who up to yesterday had responsibility for land, environment and climate change, has now been assigned to oversee water, housing and subject matters having to do with certain special economic development projects.

A news release from the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) said Minister Vaz will be tasked with ensuring that water and housing projects are accelerated and that special economic projections such as the Special Economic Zone become a reality in short order.

The office also said that newly appointed minister without portfolio Leslie Campbell has been assigned responsibility for land, environment and climate change.

Yesterday evening, Vaz told the Jamaica Observer that in his 2020/21 sectoral presentation in Parliament yesterday he had listed “major achievements, not announcements, in all four subject areas — investment, land, environment, and climate change.