A SEVENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Netherlander will make his next appearance today, before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at New Amsterdam Court in Berbice, still facing a charge of unlawful possession of 37 American Express traveller’s cheques.

The bespectacled Robert Wilfred Lobo, who had to be aided by a policewoman when he appeared last Thursday, is suffering from a hearing impairment.

He pleaded guilty but said he did not know the vouchers had been stolen and was remanded to prison, pending sentence.

The Court was told that the defendant, born in Paramaribo, Suriname, arrived in Guyana at Moleson Creek, Corentyne, from where he travelled to New Amsterdam and tendered the cheques at two banking institutions.

He succeeded in cashing some at one bank but was prevented from doing so at the other where investigations revealed that they were stolen in New York and the theft was reported to local Police, according to the case for the Prosecution.