GAIL ALEXAN­DER

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar has re­aligned Min­is­te­r­i­al re­spon­si­bil­i­ties for 10 plus front­line Min­is­ters - in­clud­ing  Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der who's now re­spon­si­ble for the prison sys­tem.

And the PM's of­fice will now hold more re­spon­si­bil­i­ties- apart from Con­sti­tu­tion­al Re­form- for the Hous­ing and Vil­lage Im­prove­ment Pro­gramme (HVIP) and oth­er pub­lic as­sis­tance pro­grammes.

The re­align­ment be­came ef­fec­tive last Sat­ur­day.

Pres­i­dent  Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo re­as­signed the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, act­ing in ac­cor­dance with the ad­vice of the Prime Min­is­ter, and in ac­cor­dance with sec­tion 79(1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion with ef­fect from 3rd Oc­to­ber, 2025.

Among the changes, Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj pre­vi­ous­ly held re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the prison sys­tem. Ma­haraj al­so lost re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem to At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie.

But Ma­haraj now al­so has added re­spon­si­bil­i­ties in­clud­ing some held by Je­re­mie's Min­istry - the En­vi­ron­men­tal Com­mis­sion, Equal Op­por­tu­ni­ty Com­mis­sion, Equal Op­por­tu­ni­ty Tri­bunal and Tax Ap­peal Board, Coun­cil of Le­gal Ed­u­ca­tion, Hugh Wood­ing Law School.

And re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for Reg­u­lar­i­sa­tion of Tenure/ Hous­ing for Squat­ter has been shift­ed from Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee to Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein.

In the gazetted no­tice, re­spon­si­bil­i­ties were shift­ed from some Min­is­ters to oth­ers.

Those whose Min­istries where shifts large­ly oc­curred - par­tic­u­lar­ly re­ceiv­ing new re­spon­si­bil­i­ties - are: Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar, At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dave Tan­coo, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der, Jus­tice Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj, Labour Min­is­ter Leroy Bap­tiste, Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein, Plan­ning Min­is­ter Kennedy Swarats­ingh, Min­is­ter of the Peo­ple/So­cial De­vel­op­ment Van­dana Mo­hi­tand Pub­lic Util­i­ties Min­is­ter Bar­ry Padarath.

Those who were af­fect­ed by re­moval of cer­tain re­spon­si­bil­i­ties al­so - but re­ceived no new re­spon­si­bil­i­ties, were Hous­ing Min­is­ter David Lee, Health Min­is­ter Lack­ram Bo­doe, Cul­ture Min­is­ter Michelle Ben­jamin, Sports Min­is­ter Phillip Watts and Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion/AI Min­is­ter Do­minic Smith.