Berbice woman on $680,000 bail over alleged bogus seaman’s training

Simone Fortune (left) and some of those who were trained.

A Canefield, East Canje Berbice woman was today placed on $680,000 bail after she was charged with seventeen counts of obtaining by false pretense following reports to the police over an alleged bogus seaman’s training course.  

Simone Fortune, General Secretary of the Guyana Seafarers and General Workers Union (GS&GWU) appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Renita Singh, who read the seventeen years charges to