In a rare move a Government Minister yesterday congratulated a reporter from .

Minister of National Drug Control Wayne Perinchief congratulated Chief Reporter Matthew Taylor for his ?Drugs: Hell in Paradise? series which has been running since Monday. ?Uncharacteristically for this side we congratulate for doing an excellent bit of journalism,? Mr. Perinchief said in the House of Friday.

?I send my congratulations to journalist Matthew Taylor of for what I believe are a very good series of articles on the drug situation.?

The new drugs Minister added Mr. Taylor?s reporting was objective, his data research very broad and his topic very timely.