At­tor­ney-at-law, Alvin Pas­call has been reap­point­ed to serve as Chair­man of the Crim­i­nal In­juries Com­pen­sa­tion Board (CI­CB) for a three-year pe­ri­od with ef­fect from March 22, 2023. Pas­call cur­rent­ly holds the po­si­tion of Head of the Le­gal De­part­ment at the Min­istry of Hous­ing and Ur­ban De­vel­op­ment, hav­ing served as Le­gal Ad­vi­sor for sev­er­al Min­istries of Gov­ern­ment.

Ac­cord­ing to the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­istry, the CI­CB Chair­man will be sup­port­ed by the Board Mem­bers who have been ap­point­ed for a three-year pe­ri­od al­so with ef­fect from March 22, 2023: Dr. Suresh Moo­nan, Med­ical Prac­ti­tion­er; Ms. Sasha Franklin-Wil­son, At­tor­ney-at-law; Ms. Ki­moy Thomas-Williams, At­tor­ney-at-law; Mr. Swanye-Leo Ho­sein-Cado­gan, Foren­sic Psy­chol­o­gist; Mr. Wen­dell Jones, Act­ing Su­per­vi­sor III, So­cial Wel­fare Di­vi­sion, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices; and Mr. William Nurse, Re­tired As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.

The CI­CB was es­tab­lished in 2006 to pro­vide com­pen­sa­tion to per­sons or de­pen­dents of per­sons who have suf­fered in­jury as a di­rect re­sult of vi­o­lent crime as de­fined in the Crim­i­nal In­juries Com­pen­sa­tion Act 21 of 1999. The Board has the man­date to eval­u­ate and de­ter­mine ap­pli­ca­tions for com­pen­sa­tion of vic­tims or their de­pen­dents as pro­vid­ed for in the Act.