Latest update June 2nd, 2023 12:49 AM
Latest News
- Jagdeo changes tune to avoid renegotiation with Exxon
- Govt. sweating over revenue shortfall if Exxon licence is suspended for failing to provide parent company guarantee for oil spills
- Region Five residents benefitting from more TVET programmes
- Rifle, 79 live ammunition among items recovered from shootout with “Smallie”, accomplice
- Sons slept in house for days with father’s decomposing body
Taxi driver busted with ganja at Harbour Bridge
A West Bank taxi driver was on Friday busted by police at the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) with more than one pound of marijuana.
The ganja found in the taxi driver’s car
Police identified him as a 33-year-old man of Patentia, West Bank Demerara (WBD). He was reportedly busted around 10:30hrs by a policeman on motorcycle patrol.
According to the Guyana Police Force (GPF), they received information that he might be transporting narcotics. The patrol cop reportedly intercepted him at the western end of the Harbour Bridge. The patrol rank accompanied by a senior rank, requested to search his car.
His impounded car.
Inside the trunk, they found three bulky plastic bags containing marijuana. The taxi driver was cautioned and taken to the La Grange Police Station where the narcotics were weighed and amounted to 1,361 kilograms of cannabis. He remains in police custody pending charges.
Similar Articles
The Blunt of the Day
Sports
Features/Columnists
Talk is cheap!
Kaieteur News – Major fires always seem to occur in Guyana when few persons are around. From the destruction of the... more
1.5°C is upon us. Are we prepared?
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News – The report on May 17, from the World Meteorological Organization, (WMO) that... more
Weekend Cartoon
