Latest update February 4th, 2025 9:06 AM
Bogus nursing school owner refunds students
Some 30 students of the bogus ‘Inter-America Nursing School’ which has been operating out of lot 5 Cummings Street and North Road, Georgetown, are now breathing a sigh of relief because some of them were refunded their money yesterday at the Brickdam Police Station.
The owner of the Inter American Nursing School.
And the woman is still in police custody, even as some 70 students are still awaiting their money.
Kaieteur News was informed that the woman refunded approximately $250,000 to the students yesterday.
Scores of students had turned up at the Brickdam Police Station yesterday to collect their money. Those who did not get theirs were told to visit the nursing school today at 9:00 am to receive their money.
However, those students who did not receive their money are furious, since according to them, the possibility existed that they could have been paid their money yesterday, but for a man claiming to be a cousin of the owner, who stopped her from refunding anymore money. He reportedly said that he is of the view that the woman is in police custody and should not be refunding any more monies.
According to reports reaching this newspaper, following Health Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy’s disclosure that the school may be engaged in fraudulent activities, several of the students sought to get an explanation from the female owner of the entity whose name was given as Nanda Kissoon, with a view to retrieving monies they had paid for courses.
They claimed that the woman offered a variety of courses, all of which she taught herself at a location in Cummings Street.
According to the students, when questioned, after the Kaieteur News article was published, they sought answers from Kissoon but she dismissed the Minister’s allegations as “mere rumours”.
However, information began to reach them that the woman had been involved in a previous scam in the medical field.
The woman was arrested on Tuesday following a number of complaints by scores of students over the woman’s alleged dishonest act.
This newspaper was told that several of the students had paid in excess of $100,000 and claimed that they simply were hoping to ‘get a break’ in the medical field.
It was explained to this newspaper that the woman is a known fraudster and was first discovered to be a scam-artist some years ago.
At a press conference last Saturday, Minister Ramsammy made the disclosure about the nursing school which, according to him, had been promoting itself on the basis that it had been accredited by the Ministry of Health.
The Health Minister pointed out that the school seems to be boosting its existence by erroneously informing its students and potential students that once they graduate their certificates will be recognised by the Guyana Nursing Council and can be used as admission to the three local nursing schools – the Georgetown School of Nursing, the New Amsterdam Nursing School and the Charles Rosa Nursing School at Linden.
However, the Minister related that the nursing schools have very specific and very rigid requirements for admission, adding that qualifications for those schools are not the same as that for the Inter-American institution.
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