Mount­ing le­gal bills and a spike in white-col­lar crim­i­nal lit­i­ga­tion have prompt­ed the Gov­ern­ment to re­quest an ad­di­tion­al $89,492,221 for the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al and Le­gal Af­fairs.

Min­is­ter of Jus­tice and Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al, De­vesh Ma­haraj, said the fund­ing is ur­gent­ly need­ed to man­age a sig­nif­i­cant in­crease in le­gal ac­tiv­i­ty.

“The Ho­n­ourable At­tor­ney Gen­er­al has ad­vised me that there are now in­creased de­mands on the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem on the is­sue of white-col­lar crimes. He told me he’s par­tic­u­lar­ly swamped in this area at this point in time,” Ma­haraj said.