Justice Ira Rowe dies

The President of the Court of Appeal, Ira Rowe, has passed away. The seventy-five year old justice was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday on the Turks and Caicos Islands where he had gone to hear appeal cases. A statement from Attorney General Eamon Courtenay was issued this afternoon saying, “Justice Rowe was a fine legal mind and an effective president of our Court of Appeal. He is a great loss, here and in the wider Caribbean.” Justice Rowe served as the President of Belize’s Court of Appeal since June of 2000 and presided over the last sitting of the court in November. Before coming to Belize, he was the President of the Court of Appeal of Jamaica and had a distinguished career of public service in Jamaica and the Caribbean. Justice Rowe is survived by his two children, David and Patricia, and three grandchildren.