Denys Barrow - Appointed to CCJ
"I think it's a delight and it's a great benefit to Belize and I would want to add as well the Eastern Caribbean where as you know I sat for some time and enjoyed a very happy period of judicial service."

Jules Vasquez, 7News
"First of all, one wants to dispel any notion that your brother is the head of government. Its real right? How does one end up on the CCJ?"

Denys Barrow - Appointed to CCJ
"There is absolutely no political appointments to that body. So it's the RJLS which appoints judges, they advertise in all the countries of the region, all the CARICOM countries and I'm certain that they advertise abroad as well. So you apply, everybody applies, whether you are the sitting chief justice of Zimbabwe or you are a humble practitioner in Belize you apply. My information is that they may have been around 30 applications and I am confirmed that there were 6 persons short listed. So it is in that process of short listing, that the choice is made. I appeared before 10 of the 11 commissioners to be interviewed and it was after the interviewing that I was appointed. So, I'm sure my brother would have done all that he could have to push Belize's candidacy forward, if he had the opportunity, but in this process there was simply no opportunity, for that it would not be case where this court is appointed by governments and therefore, they would tend to give decisions supporting the governments. The governments did not appoint the judges, they cannot appoint the judges. That's the beauty of it."

Barrow joins the court in June and said the current case he is dealing with is probably his last for the Government of Belize.