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On Monday, we introduced you to the new team of managers for the Belize Civic Center. The Government signed a three-year contract with Apex Events Services LLC of Florida, whose sole proprietor is Chad Eckert. Eckert won the bid as manager of the complex on Central American Boulevard, and has since set up a locally-based company. He has promised to keep it in use year-round to recover the millions invested in it through Belize Infrastructure Limited. But the question tonight is who is the real Chad Eckert? Is he legit? A Belizean is presently in the courts accusing him of not keeping his promises in another venture and briefly getting him arrested for theft. Gustavo Cardenas, a West Indian Sea Island Cotton farmer from Orange Walk, has a lawsuit pending in the courts with Belize Sea Island Cotton, a company based in Miramar, Florida, half an hour north of Miami, whose proprietor is Eckert. According to Cardenas’s fixed date claim filed last year, he entered into a partnership with Eckert in 2016 as proprietor of Belize Sea Island Cotton to farm cotton. Almost a year later, Cardenas found certain breaches in the agreement, including Eckert’s attempt to terminate the agreement by letter and a dispute over ownership of the farmed cotton and cotton seeds that saw police arrest Cardenas for theft. The case is still pending, but Cardenas is seeking damages for his losses in the venture. Earlier today, the contract for the Civic Center was discussed by the People’s United Party. News Five’s Isani Cayetano has that story.