The re-es­tab­lish­ment of the Min­istry of Jus­tice has been hailed as a nec­es­sary move to ad­dress the coun­try’s chron­ic ju­di­cial back­log and prison over­crowd­ing, ac­cord­ing to crim­i­nol­o­gist Dr Randy Seep­er­sad.

How­ev­er, for­mer at­tor­ney gen­er­al Camille Robin­son-Reg­is is less con­vinced, call­ing it po­lit­i­cal win­dow dress­ing rather than re­al re­form.

She re­called the Min­istry’s trou­bled past un­der the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship gov­ern­ment be­tween 2010 and 2015. Back then, Jus­tice Min­is­ter Her­bert Vol­ney was fired over the Sec­tion 34 scan­dal. His suc­ces­sor, Christlyn Moore, was lat­er re­as­signed.