Budget for Legal Affairs Ministry clears scrutiny

Anil Nandlall

Despite intense grilling on monies for a single employee being paid over $1M per month and for security services, the $2.1B budget allocation proposed for the Ministry of Legal Affairs was on Tuesday evening approved unanimously by the Committee of Supply.

Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Anil Nandlall defended allocations under his ministry and subsectors for current and capital expenditure and where he could not at the time provide answers, he promised to make them available for the house.

Nandlall said that consolidating improvements in the operations of the justice system will see greater efficiency,