Well-known Caribbean jurist dies

Tuesday, January 27, 2004

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands: Prominent Jamaican judge, Mr. Justice Ira Rowe, who sits on several Courts of Appeal in the region, died in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Sunday. He was 75. 

Mr. Justice Rowe was in the Turks and Caicos Islands as part of a three-man panel including Justices Edward Zacca and Elliott Mottley to hear a number of cases starting Monday. 

He was in good spirits late Saturday but friends became worried when he did not show for breakfast on Sunday morning. He found dead in his room at Beaches Resort and Spa. No foul play is suspected. 

Mr. Justice Rowe, who also sits on the Court of Appeal in the Cayman Islands and Belize, is a former president of the Jamaican Court of Appeal. 

He had a distinguished legal career spanning from being a magistrate to a Crown Counsel in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and then legal attaché in the Jamaican High Commission in London. 

He was Assistant Attorney-General and acting Solicitor-General in Jamaica and also lectured at the University of the West Indies.

He is survived by his two children, David, professor of Law at the University of Miami, and Dr. Patricia Rowe-King, professor of Medicine at the University of Florida, and three grandchildren. His wife, Audrey Yvonne (nee Stewart), died a few years ago. 

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