Attorney General Carl Bethel said yesterday that he is unaware of any circumstance in recent years where a large Cabinet has lead to corruption.

Bethel was responding to comments from House Speaker Halson Moultrie who said that an oversized Cabinet has over the years impeded the functionality of the legislative branch of the government and has led to corruption.

Bethel said the speaker should not deal in hypotheticals.

“We have 18 Cabinet ministers,” Bethel said when called for comment.

“There’s 35 members of Parliament, so where is this outnumbering of parliamentarians?

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