The Nunatsiavut Assembly has a new minister and a new speaker.

Marlene Winters-Wheeler, an Ordinary Member for Upper Lake Melville, will serve as the Minister of Education and Economic Development. She takes over from Finance, Human Resources and Information Technology Minister Tony Andersen who served in the position on an interim basis.

Winters-Wheeler stepped out of the Speaker’s role to take the ministerial position. Ordinary Member for Canada, Susan Onalik, has been appointed as the new Speaker.