Charged with conspiring to insert forged Guyana immigration stamps on an Antigua and Barbuda passport in an effort to visit his ill sister in Canada, a Berbician man was yesterday placed on $200,000 bail after appearing before the Chief Magistrate.
Thirty-seven-year-old Emran Mohabir of Lot 36 Canefield, East Canje, Berbice, pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him in Court 1 of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. It is alleged that between January 4 and 10, he conspired with person(s) unknown to insert four forged Guyana stamps in an Antigua and Barbuda passport number B010000.
Prosecutor Michael Grant told the court that Mohabir has close family ties in Canada. Sometime in the month of December, 2013, he made arrangements with his family for him to go to Canada. Grant continued that on January 11, Mohabir left Guyana with his passport and went