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3 More Commit Suicide – As Guyana University Linked to Major Scam

Three more students from India who had paid monies to attend the Alexander American University in Guyana are reported to have killed themselves between Tuesday and today, after discovering that the Guyana-based offshore university was being operated by now-imprisoned scammer Venkata Rao Gopi, who was arrested last Friday in Barbados after news surfaced that he is one of India’s most wanted Fraudsters.

This now brings the total number of students to have committed suicide as it relates to Alexander American University and its Barbados counterpart, Washington American University, to a total of 7 deaths in ten days.

It was widely reported that Gopi had fleeced hundreds of students in India, and took their monies to set up the Alexander American University in Guyana and the Washington University in Barbados, laundering millions of scam dollars in the process.

Some 200 students who had paid monies in India and more than fifty who had paid monies in Nigeria are now stuck with nothing more than zero-value payment receipts and admission slips to the bogus Guyana university and its subsidiary in Barbados.

Some of the students told the Guyana Guardian that they were to be assigned to another offshore medical university in Guyana, from which they are now trying to recover monies that were paid through Gopi.
The other offshore university in question had been in the news repeatedly, and students are coming forward with new information that has linked that university’s recruitment practices to Venkata Rao Gopi.

While many of the defrauded students were forced to resort to counseling, this publication has been reliably informed that a total of 7 students and two parents have since committed suicide as a result of realizing that they are now left with 10-year mortgages for a medical degree that would no longer be.

It is a widely known fact that many of the students became distressed, knowing that their parents had taken out loans, sold their worldly possessions, and created humongous debts to pay fees for them to attend the bogus University in Guyana and Barbados respectively.

Now, they are in a state of despair, as the Alexander American University which is housed at Buddy’s on Sheriff Street, Georgetown will have to be shuttered.

It is understood that the bogus university owed Buddy’s Shivraj millions of dollars in unpaid rent, forcing the businessman to serve them legal notices to move.

Interestingly, the fly-by-night offshore university was easily granted accreditation status by Guyana’s National Accreditation Council, a fact that continues to baffle many of the students, who accused the body of being part and parcel to an international fraud.

“How can Guyana’s National Accreditation Council (NAC) accredit a bogus university, knowing fully well that students will be investing their hard earned cash into something that is really a massive fraud”, ask Aaradhya Moti, one of the victims who had signed up in Uttar Pradesh.

Guyana has a long list of shady offshore medical universities with many surfacing under questionable circumstances.

Though there are laws regarding the accreditation of these institutions, observers are insisting that the NAC is not appropriately equipped to accredit medical degrees, Masters, Ph.D.’s, and most technical fields of study, at the graduate level.

They are adamant that there needs to be a commission of inquiry into the operations of these offshore universities so that a more proactive policy can be developed as it relates to their planned and existing operations in Guyana.

“They are transferring Guyana into an academic scam capital’, asserted a UG student in an online post on Facebook.

With the University of Guyana being the only institution whose medical degrees are recognized outside of Guyana, students pursuing medical degrees at many of these offshore universities are often doing so, at their own risk.

https://www.guyanaguardian.com...ru2OUU7gEV8tOAeYYoaI

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So sarry foh read this. Nuff Nuff huksters, pushers and fradsters dey down there. Dem PPP bais dey bringing dem in and dem PNC bais love de easy degree because dem is all prestige wh0$3es. Den yuh gat de VC at UG giving heself bonus. Ayoo hear public university giving bonus? Hey hey hey...

FM

I remembered Jagdeo chased out the religious scam artists (Fortune-Tellers) from India in Guyana, who preys and cashed-in on the poor and vulnerable people that believed in them. How in God's name could they allow scam in offshores University to happen in Guyana? The student's family have made ends-meet to come up with money to support their children in hope to attain a degree and ends up committing suicide when they learn the truth. This is devastated by just reading about it much less to understand what the victims must feel.  

FM

Indians have a hunger and thirst for higher education makes the susceptible to such scams.  When I lived there cases were publicized where parents sold a kidney each to send a child abroad for university education.  

FM
Labba posted:

So sarry foh read this. Nuff Nuff huksters, pushers and fradsters dey down there. Dem PPP bais dey bringing dem in and dem PNC bais love de easy degree because dem is all prestige wh0$3es. Den yuh gat de VC at UG giving heself bonus. Ayoo hear public university giving bonus? Hey hey hey...

A while back had a discussion with one of my customers who was pursuing  Nursing Degree,wanted to cut cost of tuition,she mentioned Guyana,warned her to check the institution for Accreditation.Told her flatly seek somewhere else.

Django
Baseman posted:

Indians have a hunger and thirst for higher education makes the susceptible to such scams.  When I lived there cases were publicized where parents sold a kidney each to send a child abroad for university education.  

Damn that's tough sacrifice.

Django

Another Guyana offshore university accused of defrauding students

 

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By Andrea Fernandes

GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The largest selling English language daily newspaper in the world, the Times of India, has reported that another Indian-owned offshore university located in Guyana has been defrauding international students, seemingly with the blessing of Guyana’s National Accreditation Council (NAC).

The American International School of Medicine (AISM), which is operating out of Guyana with a makeshift branch in Coimbatore, India, had claimed that its degrees are recognized because it is registered with the NAC and the World Health Organization.

However, the World Health Organization has stated in an email response that such a claim is fraudulent and untrue, while the Times of India had found that the degrees that are issued by the institution are useless.

Authorities in India and South Africa have since suggested that the mere issuance of the degrees to their citizens by the Guyana-based university is an act of international money laundering and fraud.

They questioned the wisdom of the Guyanese authorities, who are apparently allowing these kinds of universities to operate in their country without due diligence.

An editorial staff member at the Times of Indiawho had also investigated the story told the Guyana Guardian that many of the affected students in India and their parents are blaming the lax policies of Guyana’s NAC since many of these questionable universities were easily able to defraud the students based upon the NAC’s supposed accreditation or alleged endorsement (via their website) of AISM’s degrees.

The investigative article on the AISM was published after the Times of India had agreed to lend its journalism support to an ongoing investigation by the Guyana Guardian into several Indian-operated “degree mills” that have been operating in Guyana and the Caribbean.

At least five senior reporters and contributors from the Guyana Guardian, the Huffington Post, Al Jazeera, and the Times of India had agreed to assist each other in their collective investigation of many of these offshore universities.

The investigations, which are still ongoing, have since yielded a dossier of embarrassing undercover information that the consortium of journalists intends to hand over to the US Federal Bureau of Investigations, after airing a related documentary on their findings in the second quarter of 2017.

The Guyana Guardian has been at the forefront of the investigations in Guyana and has so far published a number of articles on the subject matter, which initially focused on the Texila American University and the NAC.

Texila American University threatened to file a lawsuit against the Guyana Guardian, and at least one local education official, Vincent Alexander, sought to defend its operations in Guyana via a letter in the Stabroek News (a local private newspaper), in which he claimed that the Guardian’s articles were defamatory.

To date, no such lawsuit has been filed, even though the Guyana Guardian challenged Texila to do so.

Apart from Texila American University, and the American International School of Medicine (AISM), the international media is currently investigating the operations of several others, including the Georgetown American University, Greenheart Medical University, Rajiv Gandhi University of Science and Technology, and Alexander University, which are all offshore universities that were established by various Indian citizens, who are doing business in Guyana.

Alexander University reportedly operates out of the Buddy’s Night Club on Sheriff Street, while the others function out of rented properties.

Republished with permission of the Guyana Guardian

Base on this article PNC Vincent Alexander of the University Of Guyana is the local rep. 

FM

 

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FM
Dave posted:

Base on this article PNC Vincent Alexander of the University Of Guyana is the local rep. 

And under which administration did all these INDIANS come to Guyana and set up these fraudulent schools, eh PACOO? Burnham? Or Rat man? De point is whateva de party, Guyanese gat a TEEFING PROBLEM at all levels!!!! No scruples, no morals, no integrity, no class. It all erode over 50+ years of governance by BOTH parties!!!!

Suh while alyuh sitting hay in North America talking shit about whether PNC or PPP better, de proof staring yuh straight in yuh face. NEITHER.

And while pacoo like you and de Yugli man talking about black man lazy and indian man bright and industrious, pulling fuh yuh mattie, yuh doan realize dat Guyana will only survive when all ah we realize we is Guyanese first.

Most alyuh indians hay haven't gotten that far yet. So say goodbye to Guyana and all tings "Guyanese" and get ready for yuh new masters - chinese, brazilians and venuezuelans. And of course people like Rat man, Alexander and all dem gon gladly seh "yes senor" once they get a nice fat payoff.

This is the reality that escaping low IQ people like you.

FM

Look at this racist POS Gwana.

This the third time that I am challenging you to provide evidence that I stated that blacks are lazy. Hey you racist POS, go crawl in hole.

We are ALL Guyanese. Nothing wrong in people being proud of their Indo roots and culture. The problem with Black Supremists like you is that you get angry and jealous when Indos declare and express pride in their identity and culture.

Everytime you Visit this board, you bring your race filth about “you Indos this and you Indos that”.

FM
D2 posted:

We discussed this university and Guyana's accredation scheme here a few years back. The general conclusion is that it was a scam and the Guyanese authorities were in on it.

Yea...doh is absolutely true. Dem Guyanese palaticians in on de con. Burnham son in law, PPP and some AFC fradsters in on de con. Hey hey hey...

FM

Ayoo gat de present Minister of Education of Phagwah fame doing he online dactarate wid one fraud outside Guyana. Dem people going and do fradsta dactarate in leadership. Nuff nuff peopkle. But all dis boil down to de failure at UG. And non politician wid wan fradsta dactarate will change it. Dactarate is is to signal presitge wh0rism and not foh dedicate one life foh science and knowledge creation. Hey hey hey...de presiige wh0re culta is too deep now foh change. Hey hey hey...

FM
yuji22 posted:

Look at this racist POS Gwana.

This the third time that I am challenging you to provide evidence that I stated that blacks are lazy. Hey you racist POS, go crawl in hole.

Read the link below you weak ass punk. Don't you EVER challenge me again you effeminate WORM. Let me extract yuh slimy, racist, dribble that come from yuh nasty Hindutva mind.

YUGI: Fact is that Immigrants are taking jobs that lazy black Americans do not want and becoming rich by owning homes and educating their children.

Lazy Black Americans are having children and 75 percent of young blacks are raised with single parents in welfare and poverty.

Blacks need to own up other problems otherwise they will remain at the bottom of the economic ladder and remain in poverty and welfare.

https://guyana.crowdstack.io/topic/t...3#489243058767947793

FM
yuji22 posted:

Where did I state that ALL Blacks are lazy ? Listen antiman, please try again.

heh heh heh...yuh get ketch wid yuh doti off. LMAO. the original thread gives the full context of yuh dutty remarks punk.

FM
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Iguana posted:
Dave posted:

Base on this article PNC Vincent Alexander of the University Of Guyana is the local rep. 

And under which administration did all these INDIANS come to Guyana and set up these fraudulent schools, eh PACOO? Burnham? Or Rat man? De point is whateva de party, Guyanese gat a TEEFING PROBLEM at all levels!!!! No scruples, no morals, no integrity, no class. It all erode over 50+ years of governance by BOTH parties!!!!

Suh while alyuh sitting hay in North America talking shit about whether PNC or PPP better, de proof staring yuh straight in yuh face. NEITHER.

And while pacoo like you and de Yugli man talking about black man lazy and indian man bright and industrious, pulling fuh yuh mattie, yuh doan realize dat Guyana will only survive when all ah we realize we is Guyanese first.

Most alyuh indians hay haven't gotten that far yet. So say goodbye to Guyana and all tings "Guyanese" and get ready for yuh new masters - chinese, brazilians and venuezuelans. And of course people like Rat man, Alexander and all dem gon gladly seh "yes senor" once they get a nice fat payoff.

This is the reality that escaping low IQ people like you.

You are the most racist person on this site. Now gawn so.... You’re NOT worth my time. 

FM
Dave posted:

You are the most racist person on this site. Now gawn so.... You’re NOT worth my time. 

...heh, heh heh....anodda wan get ketch wid he panty down. Ow Devanand, all yuh had to do wuz admit all dese kanta school was formed unda Rat man and he surrogate rule.

FM
yuji22 posted:

You lying POS, I challenge to prove where I stated that ALL Blacks are lazy. 

..it deh right deh in black and white. Given your poor command of de English language and the fact that you are an uneducated dullard you don't grasp the implications. Guh get an education slime ball!!!!

FM

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