Immigration grounds UK-based Guyanese over alleged nursing school debt

Lavern Cosbert

Lavern Cosbert says she is being prevented from leaving the country to return to her home and teen daughter in the United Kingdom, since local authorities claim she still owes the government for a nursing programme that she took in 1989.

Cosbert, who now resides in Wales and is a Registered Nurse in the UK, told Stabroek News that as a result of being grounded here,