2 weeks ago, we told you about the letter that attorney Godwin Haylock wrote to the Belize City Council. His father, the owner of Haylock's Bus Service, wants Mayor Bernard Wagner and his administration to rescind the "permit" that City Hall gave to bus owner Phillip Jones, to run the Belama to Belize City route.
Haylock's Bus Service is the only company that has a road service permit to carry passengers between Belama and Belize City. That was granted by the Transport Board, which attorney Godwin Haylock asserts is the only body which can give permits to bus operators. Haylock's bus insists that the permit that City Hall gave to Phillip Jones is unlawful.
They demanded that the City Hall permit be rescinded, or they would take it to court.
Well, City Hall ignored Godwin Haylock's lawyer letter, and so, the two sides ended up in front of Justice Shona Griffith today. The Haylocks are asking for an application for leave to bring a judicial review case.
Godwin Haylock and his father, as well as Phillip Jones, Mayor Bernard Wagner, City Administrator Stephanie Lindo Garbutt, Traffic Manager Kevon Jenkins, and several city councillors crowded into court this afternoon for the first hearing of this case. When it was over about an hour or so later, we spoke with Haylock about how his first attempts to reverse the City Council's permit are going:
City Hall was represented in this hearing today by attorney Kareem Musa. We requested comment from Mayor Bernard Wagner and the City Council on this issue, but up until news time, our requests remain unanswered. We note that the Mayor and his City Council team slipped out the backdoor at the court house while we were interviewing Haylock.
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