Berbice senior charged with using forged birth certificate in bid to get US visa

An elderly Berbice man was on Tuesday brought before a city court on a charge that he used a forged birth certificate in a bid to get a US visa.

Charransain Pitham, 60, was charged with uttering a forged document.

The charge stated that on May 13, 2015, at Duke Street, Kingston, Georgetown, with the intent to defraud, Pitham uttered to Leon Greaves