A smaller Cabinet with at least two new faces will be announced today by Premier the Hon. David Saul.

The streamlined Cabinet signifies a leaner approach to Government that will include a review of the use of Government cars, Dr. Saul told The Royal Gazette yesterday.

The Premier, who was finalising the appointments at his Devonshire home yesterday afternoon, told The Royal Gazette he hoped to announce his Cabinet today and have Ministers sworn in at Government House tomorrow.

While Dr. Saul was tightlipped, Dr. Grant Gibbons was expected to take over the Finance Ministry, Mr. David Dodwell the Tourism Ministry, and Mr. Jerome Dill the Ministry of Education.

And Mr. C.V. (Jim) Woolridge, who lost the leadership to Dr. Saul in a 14-7 vote, would return to the Labour and Immigration portfolio, which he held before taking up Tourism, sources said.

Mr. Maxwell Burgess, who held the Transport portfolio, and Dr. Clarence Terceira, who handled Education, were expected to leave Cabinet. So was Mr.

Gerald Simons, who sources said had resigned as Government Leader in the Senate and would lose his Environment Minister's job.

Lawyer Ms Lynda Milligan-Whyte, the newest Senator, was expected to be named Government Leader in the Senate today and join the Cabinet.

Dr. Saul's three other Senate appointments would not be made today.

As part of the fight against crime and drugs, a Minister of Security would be named, Dr. Saul said. The Minister would also be responsible for Home Affairs and possibly another area.

The Cabinet was expected to have ten Ministers, down from 11 when the Cabinet was dissolved and 12 at the time it was appointed. Human Affairs was expected to be joined with another Ministry, possibly Community and Cultural Affairs.

"If you can combine some portfolios, streamline them, and make them more efficient and effective, that will be a step in the right direction to keeping costs down,'' said the former Finance Minister.

"The over-riding objective is to deal with drugs and crime,'' and money saved elsewhere would be put toward that fight, Dr. Saul said.

In another departure, Dr. Saul planned to make one of his Cabinet Ministers the Government House Leader. Until now, there has only been a Government Leader in the Senate.

Mr. Wayne Furbert was tipped as Transport Minister, while Mr. Tim Smith could succeed Ms Pamela Gordon as Minister of Youth and Sport. Ms Gordon, who is off the Island, was turned off by the divisive Independence debate and is not interested in serving at this time, sources said.

Dr. Gibbons was expected to retain responsibility for the handover of the American Bases, on top of his new Finance job. Mr. Quinton Edness and Mr.

Leonard Gibbons were expected to remain in Cabinet, where they could be joined by Dr. David Dyer, sources said.

Meanwhile, another United Bermuda Party election was planned for Friday -- this one for Deputy Premier.

Just as was the case for election of the Premier last Friday, candidates had to be nominated by five other MPs, said party chairman Sen. Gary Pitman. The deadline for nominations was midnight Tuesday, nominees would deliver speeches and answer questions on Thursday, and the election would be held Friday, he said.

Having parked the Premier's shiny BMW with licence plates GP1 and promised to only use it for special ceremonies, Dr. Saul also announced a review of the use of Government cars.

"If efficiency is going to be one of my clarion calls, the use of GP cars is going to have to be reviewed at all levels,'' he said. "The vast majority of the 83 Government vehicles are used for Government business.'' Dr. Saul's job of naming a new Cabinet was made difficult, sources said, because some candidates did not want to give a `yes' or `no' answer. With much of the caucus split into camps of those who supported and opposed Independence, members of those camps wanted to know who else would be in Cabinet and what posts they would hold before they would agree to sit.

But Dr. Saul felt his Cabinet would set the stage for restored "peace and tranquillity'' in the UBP and Country generally.

Sir John Swan resigned as Premier on Friday in response to the 74 percent `no' vote in the recent Independence referendum.