The five men, including three Guyanese who were charged by the Barbadian authorities in connection with a US$642,000 cocaine bust last week, were yesterday remanded to prison after making an appearance at the Holetown Magistrates’ Court on the island.
The drug bust was made following a tip-off by local anti-narcotics agencies to their counterparts in Barbados about the ‘suspicious’ movement of a boat, which departed these shores two Wednesdays ago.
According to the Barbados Nation, Guyanese Daranand Outar, 32, of East Bank Essequibo and an operations manager on board the vessel ‘MV Caricom,’ Andrew Edwin McLennon, 30, a truck driver, of Georgetown, Surain