[4] During his chairmanship, Chebat oversaw a feasibility study for the implementation of non-contributory pensions, the rollout of national health insurance,[5] and the creation of a new logo.
[7][8] Chebat was elected secretary of the Bar Association of Belize in 1999, where he served alongside fellow officers President Fred Lumor, Vice-president Rodwell Williams, and Treasurer Edwin Flowers.
In that position, he spoke out against lack of enforcement of environmental laws, as well as the long wait for civil cases to be heard in Belize's overloaded court system.
[15][16][17] At one point this led Director of Public Prosecutions Kirk Anderson to suggest that one of them be tried in absentia, though Supreme Court Justice Adolph Lucas ruled against this because the suspect in question had not been arraigned.
[20][21] In 2006, Ellis Arnold, Chebat, and Lutchman Sooknandan represented a shopkeeper accused of manslaughter for shooting and killing an employee who was armed with a machete and high on cocaine, but their argument of self-defense was not sufficient to keep the jury from convicting their client; Chief Justice Abdulai Conteh sentenced him to seven years' imprisonment.