Comments on: Legal Progress Conundrum https://payamag.com/2018/05/30/legal-progress-conundrum/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legal-progress-conundrum&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=legal-progress-conundrum Paya The Roatan Lifestyle Magazine, Bay Islands, Honduras Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:54:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Felix Reyes Hyde https://payamag.com/2018/05/30/legal-progress-conundrum/#comment-456 Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:54:46 +0000 https://payamag.com/?p=5000#comment-456 Unfortunately, Keena´s overview on the Bay Island´s legal system is not far from the truth. First of all, allow me to introduce myself: My name is Felix Reyes Hyde, with 50% Bonnacian roots, for which I hold the Bay Islands very close to my heart. I am a third generation Attorney with a daughter to become the fourth generation, so yes, there must be something weird with our DNA that makes us choose this line of work!
Since my early practice, as Keena, traveled a lot to the Roatan Court to help customers resolve their issues, I can vouch for her observations on how the Court System has negatively changed over time, not only pertaining Roatan, but in other parts of this beautiful country.
By the previous, I had the same observation Keena made herself: “…Arbitration process should be allowed as it is on the mainland with Chamber of Commerce involved in conciliation.” There should always be alternatives to a problem (except death).
Having said that, several years back I embarked in the study of Conciliation (similar to Mediation, but in my opinion, a better tool) and Arbitration (by which the parties give the right to one or several experts to decide in their behalf), to the extent of being hired by La Ceiba´s Chamber of Commerce (Cámara de Comercio e Industrias de Atlántida) to create and manage a Conciliation and Arbitration Centre for them, which to this day has tended to claims that add up to nearly L.300,000,000.00. So, yes, these alternative means to resolve conflicts do work and have many great advantages over the traditional ones.
Don´t want to bore the reader with legal mumbo-jumbo, only conclude with the following:
1. You have alternatives. The Roatan Chamber of Commerce can create their own Conciliation and Arbitration Centre to help parties solve their conflicts. I´d be happy to help in such process; or,
2. Our Conciliation and Arbitration Centre located in La Ceiba, Honduras, can help parties solve their conflicts, as we have done with individuals and corporations, national and foreign, over the last years.
Should you need any more information, our doors are wide open.

Attorney Felix Reyes Hyde
Director
Conciliation and Arbitration Centre
Atlántida´s Chamber of Commerce
La Ceiba, Honduras
Tel. (504) 24407935
Cel. (504) 99910249
Email ccyadelaccia@gmail.com
Facebook: Centro de Conciliación y Arbitraje CCIA

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