MARTINSBURG — A total of 41 seventh- and eighth-graders at Saint Joseph School presented a wide range of projects on Dec. 15 to a panel of local science experts in
Guyanese Udisteen Mangaru told police over five years ago that he did not know the work permit stamp in his passport was a fake.Sergeant Terrence Howard of the Financial Crimes Investigations Unit gave that evidence when Mangaru’s case was called before Magistrate Manila Renee on Monday.Mangaru, who at the time resided at Denton Road Grazettes, St Michael, is charged that on May 18, 2017, for the purposes of remaining in Barbados, he had a Guyana passport in his name, bearing an Immigration and Passport Department work permit dated May 29, 2014 which had not been lawfully issued by the Barbados Immigration Department.Sergeant Howard, under questioning by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Trevor Blackman, told the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court that the report was made to police by an immigration officer and he and another officer went on duty to that department.He was given a letter addressed to the accused regarding a citizenship induction ceremony which carried the le