A Guyanese convict, who was able to re-enter Barbados after being deported and obtain Barbadian national identification and national insurance cards has pleaded guilty to fraud and will be sentenced next Wednesday.

The Barbados Nation reported that Tyrone Anthony Nelson, 23, whose address was given as Passage Road, St Michael, last Monday, pleaded guilty before a Bridgetown Magistrates’ Court to illegally obtaining both documents.

The court also heard that Nelson had been deported from Barbados in October 2008, after spending six months in prison for credit card fraud. However, late last year, Nelson re-entered Barbados with a new passport issued in a different name.

The Nation report said Nelson had acquired the new Guyana passport using the name of a dead relative. Once he arrived in Barbados, he applied for and was issued both national identification documents in the name of a Barbadian, whose documents he had stolen prior to his arrest and sentencing in 2008.

Nelson pleaded guilty to the charge that, for the purpose of being registered as an elector, he knowingly made a false statement to the Electoral and Boundaries Commission and that he was assigned a national insurance and social security registration card bearing the name Dwayne Akeem Eaton Sobers.

Head of the Police Force’s Fraud Unit, Assistant Superintendent John Maxwell said on Wednesday that identification and national insurance cards should not be issued before a thorough background check of the applicant was carried out.

“These are the issues that affect national security and which we are particularly concerned about,” Maxwell told the Nation. “Every effort must be made to ensure that . . . such documents are obtained with genuine information and by legitimate applicants.”
Nelson returns before Chief Magistrate Clyde Nicholls for sentencing next Wednesday.