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About an hour or so before news time, a Supreme Court bailiff was at Trevor Vernon's house in Burrell Boom marking his belongings to be confiscated because he didn't pay the entire sum owed to attorney Denys Barrow. Viewers may remember that Barrow successfully defended Edmond Castro against Vernon accusation that Castro violated the Cabinet code of ethics for those well-known Belize Airport Authority cheques. Vernon lost, and had to pay the five thousand dollar cost of Castro's attorney Denys Barrow by yesterday. 

As we showed you yesterday, Vernon showed up to pay half of the cost in coins. When those money bags stuffed with coins were all counted up, he had paid $2,489.50 – ten dollars and fifty cents short of half of what was due. 

Well, as was his right because of the short of payment, Denys Barrow applied to the court and got a writ of execution granted against Vernon. The bailiff executed the writ this evening, and went to Vernon's house and started a valuation process on his belongings to ensure that the debt owed can somehow be collected if Vernon is unable to pay the rest of the money.

He has 5 days to come up with the other half of the money, plus the fees attributed to the writ of execution, to a total amount of $2,710.50, and if he doesn't, the court will auction off Vernon's properties to recoup the debt.

Now, the case of Attorney Rodwell Williams is different.  Arthur Saldivar paid him two thousand dollars in coins as well. Well, we should say tried to pay, because Williams confirmed to us today that he told his office staff not to accept the payment.  The reason?  Well, Williams told us that there is a little known Central Bank Statute which states that a debt in excess of fifty dollars cannot be paid with coins. Williams also said that he would not have accepted the two thousand dollars which Saldivar tried to pay, because it was not the $9,500 dollars that the court ordered.