Pres­i­dent Chris­tine Car­la Kan­ga­loo has ap­proved a sweep­ing re­as­sign­ment of min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties on the ad­vice of Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, with ma­jor changes af­fect­ing the port­fo­lios for Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and Pub­lic Util­i­ties.

Un­der the new arrange­ments, which took ef­fect on 3 Oc­to­ber 2025, the Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, Roger Alexan­der, is now re­spon­si­ble for the Prison Sys­tem, while the Min­is­ter of Pub­lic Util­i­ties, Bar­ry Padarath, has been giv­en over­sight of Pow­er Gen­er­a­tion, in­clud­ing Trinidad Gen­er­a­tion Un­lim­it­ed (TGU) and POW­ER­GEN.

The changes were for­malised in Gazette No. 146 of 2025, pub­lished on Sat­ur­day, 4 Oc­to­ber, which al­so record­ed a wide-rang­ing reshuf­fle across mul­ti­ple min­istries. The re­as­sign­ment ex­er­cise was car­ried out un­der sec­tion 79(1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go, grant­i­ng the Pres­i­dent au­thor­i­ty to as­sign min­is­te­r­i­al du­ties on the ad­vice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

Un­der the new dis­tri­b­u­tion of re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, John Je­re­mie, S.C., re­tains the po­si­tion of At­tor­ney Gen­er­al but is now tasked with mat­ters re­lat­ing to the Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Unit. His port­fo­lio no longer in­cludes the En­vi­ron­men­tal Com­mis­sion, Equal Op­por­tu­ni­ty Com­mis­sion and Tri­bunal, Tax Ap­peal Board, Coun­cil of Le­gal Ed­u­ca­tion, and the Hugh Wood­ing Law School—all of which have been trans­ferred to Min­is­ter of Jus­tice De­vesh Ma­haraj. Ma­haraj, who al­so serves as Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, has tak­en on ad­di­tion­al du­ties re­lat­ing to Elec­tron­ic Mon­i­tor­ing, the Equal Op­por­tu­ni­ty bod­ies, and the Crim­i­nal In­juries Com­pen­sa­tion Board, while los­ing over­sight of the Prison Sys­tem and Crim­i­nal Jus­tice Unit.

The Min­istry of Land and Le­gal Af­fairs, led by Sad­dam Ho­sein, re­places the for­mer Min­istry of Le­gal Af­fairs. Ho­sein now over­sees Lands and Sur­veys, Land Man­age­ment, Reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion of Tenure and Hous­ing for Squat­ters, Sur­veys and Map­ping, Val­u­a­tion, the Land Set­tle­ment Agency, Land Sur­vey Board of Trinidad and To­ba­go, and the Es­tate Man­age­ment and Busi­ness De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny. He no longer holds re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for Con­sti­tu­tion­al Re­form, which has been trans­ferred to the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter.

Ravi Rati­ram con­tin­ues as Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture and Fish­eries, fol­low­ing the re­clas­si­fi­ca­tion of his min­istry, but is no longer re­spon­si­ble for land-re­lat­ed mat­ters, which have been re­as­signed to Min­is­ter Ho­sein. His port­fo­lio now fo­cus­es on Agri­cul­ture, Fish­eries, Food Se­cu­ri­ty, Forestry, and Agri­cul­tur­al De­vel­op­ment.

Dr Lack­ram Bo­doe, Min­is­ter of Health, has re­lin­quished re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the Na­tion­al Health In­sur­ance Sys­tem, which now falls un­der the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, who al­so as­sumes over­sight of the Ex­port-Im­port Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go (Ex­im­bank).

In the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has tak­en di­rect re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for Her­itage Build­ings, Con­sti­tu­tion­al Re­form, the Na­tion­al Trust, the Na­tion­al Li­brary and In­for­ma­tion Sys­tem Au­thor­i­ty (NALIS), and sev­er­al hous­ing-re­lat­ed ini­tia­tives, in­clud­ing the Home Im­prove­ment Grants Pol­i­cy, the Hous­ing and Vil­lage Im­prove­ment Pro­gramme (HVIP), and the Gov­ern­ment Aid­ed Self-Help Hous­ing Pro­gramme (GASHHP).

The Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple, So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Van­dana Mo­hit, is now re­spon­si­ble for the Geri­atric Ado­les­cent Part­ner­ship Pro­gramme, while Sen­a­tor Dr Kennedy Swarats­ingh, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment, has been giv­en charge of So­cial Plan­ning, De­vel­op­ment and Mon­i­tor­ing.

Oth­er ad­just­ments in­clude Dr David Lee, Min­is­ter of Hous­ing, los­ing over­sight of squat­ter reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion and home im­prove­ment grants, and Michelle Ben­jamin, Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment, no longer re­spon­si­ble for the Na­tion­al Com­mis­sion for Self Help Lim­it­ed.

The Gazette al­so records that  Satyaka­ma Ma­haraj, Min­is­ter of Trade, In­vest­ment and Tourism, has been re­lieved of re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for NED­CO and the Ex­im­bank, while Dr Roodal Mooni­lal, Min­is­ter of En­er­gy and En­er­gy In­dus­tries, no longer over­sees Pow­er Gen­er­a­tion, TGU, or POW­ER­GEN, as these now fall un­der Min­is­ter Padarath in the Min­istry of Pub­lic Util­i­ties.