Guyanese remanded to prison in Barbados on drug charges

Five Guyanese men along with two Barbadians were yesterday remanded to prison when they appeared in the District ‘A’ Magistrates’ Court in Barbados charged with drug importation.

According to a report received from the Daily Nation, Guyanese boat captain Umbar Jasiree Angad, 53; Rupee Angad, 21, a sailor; Peter Granville Gonzalves, 48, a salesman; Shan Ali, 43, a boat engineer and Travis Payne, 30, a sailor, all of East Bank Demerara, Guyana along with Barbadians David Winston Smith, 42, a fisherman, of Coleman Road, Jackson, St Michael, and Ralph Ian Holder, 51, a barman, of Hunte’s Street,