Cuban woman charged for immigration stamp forgery

Jun 24, 2017 Court Stories, Features / Columnists, News

A Cuban woman was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $200,000 after she appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce.

Camillo Garcia

Barbara Davila denied the first of two charges which alleged that between February 6 and June 21 at Georgetown, she conspired to commit forgery.
Davila, the court heard, conspired with person/s to forge one Guyana Immigration Service extension stamp which was inserted on page seven of her Republic of Cuba passport, purporting to show that same was issued by the Central and Immigration Passport Office here.
The defendant also denied a second charge which alleged that on June 21 at the same location, with intent to defraud, she uttered to an Immigration officer one Republic of Cuba passport with a forged Guyana Immigration extension stamp inserted on page seven of her passport, knowing same to be forged.
Attorney Peter Fung-a-Fat, who represented the defendant, told the court that his client is 28 year old and resides at Lot 152 Sixth Street Alberttown. He said that she has no previous or pending matter, and at the time she was visiting a friend in Guyana.
The court heard that while being in Guyana legally, the defendant along with her Guyanese friend went for an extension at the passport office. She allegedly paid a Cuban national US$300 to get the passport stamp.
Police Prosecutor Preston John had no objection to bail being granted to the defendant. She will make her next court appearance on July 7.
Meanwhile, in the same court, another Cuban national was fined $20,000 and ordered deported after pleading guilty to a charge of overstaying.
Thirty-one-year-old Camillo Garcia pleaded guilty to the charge which alleged that between March 29 and June 22, at Georgetown, he failed to comply with conditions subject to which any permit had been granted, to stay in Guyana from December 28, 2016 to March 28, 2017. He overstayed the period.
Facts presented by Police Prosecutor Preston John stated that the defendant arrived in Guyana via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on December 28 and was granted three months stay.
The court heard that subsequent to the expiry of the permit, the defendant was intercepted by ranks of the Guyana Police Force at Lethem and an examination on his passport showed that he had overstayed his time here. Upon paying the fine, the defendant will be deported back to Cuba.

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