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Kenneth Benjamin
Caribbean jurist, Chief Justice of Belize

Kenneth Benjamin

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Caribbean jurist, Chief Justice of Belize
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Kenneth Andrew Charles Benjamin
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Hugh Wooding Law School
(-1977)
University of the West Indies
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Biography

Kenneth Andrew Charles Benjamin is a Caribbean jurist. A dual national of Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda, he has served as Chief Justice of Belize since 15 September 2011.

Career

In 1980 and 1981, Benjamin served as a magistrate in Georgetown, Guyana, He went on to serve as Assistant Judge Advocate for the Guyana Defence Force. From 1988, he continued his work as a judge in Antigua, including from 1991 to 1993 as Chief Magistrate of Antigua. Following that, he was named as a judge of the High Court of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. In this capacity he served in Montserrat and the British Virgin Islands in the succeeding years. From 2002 to 2007, Benjamin's position as ECSC High Court Judge took him to Grenada; he was succeeded there by Francis Cumberbatch. In 2007, he relocated to St. Lucia to become the presiding judge of the High Court of St. Lucia's criminal division.

In July 2011, following the retirement of Abdulai Conteh, Attorney-General B. Q. Pitts announced that Benjamin would be Belize's new Chief Justice. In the interim, Samuel Lungole Awich served as acting CJ. Pitts indicated his hopes that Benjamin, at the time 56, would be able to hold his position until he reached the mandatory retirement age of 65.

Personal life

Benjamin graduated from the Hugh Wooding Law School of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago in 1977. He is married and has a daughter and a son.

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