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- If a contract is parasitic, it must be nullified – Kenyan anti-corruption expert, PLO Lumumba on Stabroek Block deal
- Exxon and partners profits from 2020 to 2022 three times more than Guyana’s oil revenues
- Countries within pathway of potential oil spill from Guyana have US$140B of economic activity at risk
- Independent consultant relied on Exxon’s data to determine US$2B parent guarantee – EPA Head tells High Court
- Guyana should not have to go to Court for Exxon to pay for damages when Permit demands parent guarantee – David Patterson
Parika man sentenced to five years for trafficking ‘Poppy’
Kaieteur News – Thirty-year-old Andy Jainandan of Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE) was on Tuesday sentenced to five years imprisonment after he pleaded guilty to trafficking 12lbs of imported marijuana, commonly known by its street name ‘poppy’ when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Jailed for trafficking imported marijuana, Andy Jainandan
Jainandan was also fined $5.4M when he appeared before Magistrate Dylon Bess.
On Saturday, the Customs Anti-Narcotics unit (CANU) nabbed Jainandan with the drugs along the Zeeburg Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD). The drugs were wrapped in five brick-like packages and stashed in a haversack.
According to CANU the confiscated drugs is worth some $1.8M.
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