Belize Swears in New Chief Justice

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - September 18, 2011

Above: the Belizean Supreme Court

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Belize’s Governor General Sir Colville Young has sworn in the country’s new Chief Justice, Guyanese native Kenneth Benjamin.

Benjamin is a former magistrate in Antigua, where he became Chief Magistrate in 1991.

He also ascended to the High Court bench of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in 1993, having sat in Antigua, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Grenada and St Lucia.

Benjamin graduated from the University of the West Indies’ Cave Hill campus in 1975 and obtained his Certificate of Legal Education in 1977 in Trinidad.

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