The Ho­n­ourable De­vesh Ma­haraj, Min­is­ter of Jus­tice and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, pre­sent­ed in­stru­ments of ap­point­ment to the new­ly ap­point­ed board of the Le­gal Aid & Ad­vi­so­ry Au­thor­i­ty dur­ing a cer­e­mo­ny held at the Au­thor­i­ty’s head of­fice to­day.

Min­is­ter Ma­haraj con­grat­u­lat­ed the new board mem­bers and un­der­scored the crit­i­cal role they will play in ad­vanc­ing the gov­er­nance, over­sight and strate­gic di­rec­tion of the Au­thor­i­ty.

“You all can count on me to cham­pi­on your cause,” he told board mem­bers, adding that they are en­trust­ed with shap­ing the strate­gic di­rec­tion of the Au­thor­i­ty, strength­en­ing in­sti­tu­tion­al ef­fec­tive­ness and en­sur­ing ser­vices re­main aligned with the needs of the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.