Bahamian fined $50,000 for fake passport
A Bahamian of Jamaican parentage has been slapped with a $50,000 fine for entering Jamaica on a fake passport.
Harvey Bennett was fined in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court last Friday after he pleaded guilty to charges of possession of a forged passport and uttering a forged passport.
The 24-year-old Bennett was nabbed at the Norman Manley International Airport recently after presenting the fake Jamaican passport to immigration officials there.
Bennett, a computer software programmer, reportedly presented the passport in the name Jared Harvey.
The attorney representing Bennett, Everton Dewar, told the court that even though his client was born in The Bahamas he is not considered a Bahamian, adding that the island wanted him to give up his citizenship.
He was fined $30,000 or six months for possession of a forged passport and $20,000 or six months for uttering a forged passport.
— Racquel Porter
