A University of Guyana (UG) student was on Friday granted bail after he was charged with fraud and uttering a fake driver’s licence to the police.
Shaquan Caesar, 20, was released on a total of $200,000 bail after he appeared before Senior Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magis-trates’ Courts and denied the charges.
It is alleged that on January 25, at Brickdam, with intent to defraud, he forged a Guyana driver’s licence in the name of Antoney Jacobs. It was also alleged that on January 25, at Brickdam, with intent to defraud, he uttered a forged driver’s licence in the name of Jacobs to a police constable, knowing same to be forged.
According to the case against him, on the day in question the man was driving a bus when police on a motorcycle patrol observed that he was not driving along the bus along its designated route. He was stopped and asked to go to a police station, where he was asked to produce his driver’s licence. After he presented the licence, it was discovered that the name on the licence was not his, although it bore his photograph.
It is alleged that Caesar told the police that he paid someone at the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) to forge the name and information on the licence.
The youth was granted bail in the amount of $100,000 for each charge and told to return to court on March 4.
