A woman who claimed to be a security agent for the Pope and a friend of the US President Donald Trump was yesterday denied bail after she was charged with illegal entry into the country.
Sylvia Dubois, 50, who is a French national, was charged at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday with illegal entry into Guyana. The charge stated that between December 15th and December 20th, 2019, at Springlands, Coren-tyne, she entered Guyana by sea and disembarked without the consent of an immigration officer.
After pleading not guilty to the charge, the woman told the court that she had been to an immigration officer. “I went to the immigration officer and they told me if I am a secret service officer, I am not welcomed,” she said.
However, Police Prosecutor Gordon Mansfield told the court that Dubois was arrested at the Ogle airport after immigration officials there noticed that her passport had not been stamped to confirm legal access to the country. A background check had been done on her after she was arrested and taken to the Criminal Investigation Department, and it was found that she entered the country via backtrack from Suriname.
The prosecutor also told the court that Dubois’ passport had three entry stamps, one for Argentina on November 20, 2018, one for entry at Uruguay in February of 2019 and one for Brazil later in the same month.
He said that Dubois was attempting to leave Guyana from the Ogle airport to go to the US.
The Chief Magistrate subsequently remanded the woman to prison until January 13th, when a date for the commencement of her trial will be decided on by a magistrate at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court.
