A woman is now set to face just over a dozen charges after she allegedly scammed groups of men in Berbice by pretending to facilitate accredited training courses for would-be seafarers.
Several Berbice men who each paid $160,000 to undertake a Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping (STCW) course for seafarers made reports to the police after unsuccessful attempts to obtain their certification over the past year.
Stabroek News contacted the woman in charge of the programme yesterday. However, she asked to return the call to Stabroek News “in a couple of minutes” but failed to do so. After this, Stabroek News was unable to get on to her.