Cabinet of Kiribati
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The Cabinet of Kiribati is the cabinet
Cabinet (government)
A Cabinet is a body of high ranking government officials, typically representing the executive branch. It can also sometimes be referred to as the Council of Ministers, an Executive Council, or an Executive Committee.- Overview :...

 (executive branch
Executive (government)
Executive branch of Government is the part of government that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the idea of the separation of powers.In many countries, the term...

) of the government
Politics of Kiribati
Politics of Kiribati takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Kiribati is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and...

 of the Republic of Kiribati
Kiribati
Kiribati , officially the Republic of Kiribati, is an island nation located in the central tropical Pacific Ocean. The permanent population exceeds just over 100,000 , and is composed of 32 atolls and one raised coral island, dispersed over 3.5 million square kilometres, straddling the...

.

The Constitution of Kiribati (art.40) specifies that the Cabinet "shall consist of the Beretitenti, the Kauoman-ni-Beretitenti and not more than 10 other Ministers, and the Attorney-General". Members of the Cabinet are appointed by the President
President of Kiribati
The President of Kiribati is the head of state and head of government of Kiribati.Following a general election, by which citizens elect the members of the House of Assembly, members select from their midst "not less than 3 nor more than 4 candidates" for the presidency. No other person may stand...

, from among Members of Parliament
House of Assembly of Kiribati
The House of Assembly of Kiribati has 46 members, 44 elected for a four year term in single-seat and multi-seat constituencies, 1 delegate from Banaba Island and 1 ex-officio member .Created with the Constitution of 12 July 1979, its new seat is at Ambo since October 2000, on South Tarawa...

 (art.41).

Current Cabinet

As of March 2011:
Portfolio Minister
President
President of Kiribati
The President of Kiribati is the head of state and head of government of Kiribati.Following a general election, by which citizens elect the members of the House of Assembly, members select from their midst "not less than 3 nor more than 4 candidates" for the presidency. No other person may stand...

Anote Tong
Anote Tong
Anote Tong is an I-Kiribati politician with Chinese heritage. He is the current President of Kiribati. He won the election in July 2003 with a slim plurality of votes cast against his brother, Dr. Harry Tong and the private lawyer Banuera Berina...

Vice President
Vice President of Kiribati
The Vice President of Kiribati is the vice head of State of the Republic of Kiribati. His or her constitutional functions are to exercise the duties of the President of Kiribati, temporarily or permanently, should the latter be unable to do so, and to "be responsible for such business of the...

;
Minister for Commerce, Industry and Cooperatives
Teima Onorio
Teima Onorio
Teima Onorio is the current Vice President of the Republic of Kiribati. She served a first term of Vice President from 2003 to 2007, before being reappointed.She is also Minister for Education, Youth and Sports Development...

Minister for Foreign Affairs and Immigration Tessie Lambourne
Minister for the Civil Service Tererei Abete-Reema
Minister for Public Works and Infrastructure Kirabuke Teiaua
Minister for Education, Youth and Sports Toakai Koririntetaake
Minister for Communications, Transport and Tourism Temate Ereateiti
Minister for Health and Meducal Services Dr. Kautu Tenaua
Minister for the Environment, Land and Agricultural Development Amberoti Nikora
Minister for the Interior and Social Affairs Kouraiti Beniato
Minister for Finance and Economic Development Natan Teewe
Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources Taberannang Timeon
Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources Taberannang Timeon
Minister for the Line
Line Islands
The Line Islands, Teraina Islands or Equatorial Islands, is a chain of eleven atolls and low coral islands in the central Pacific Ocean, south of the Hawaiian Islands, that stretches for 2,350 km in a northwest-southeast direction, making it one of the longest islands chains of the world...

 and Phoenix Islands
Phoenix Islands
The Phoenix Islands are a group of eight atolls and two submerged coral reefs, lying in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Gilbert Islands and west of the Line Islands. They are a part of the Republic of Kiribati. During the late 1930s they became the site of the last attempted colonial...

Tawita Temoku
Minister for Labour and Human Resources Ioteba Redfern
Attorney-General Titabu Tabane
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