A labourer, accused of attempting to traffic 15 grammes of cocaine, was remanded to prison yesterday.
Steve Richards, 43, of Lot 66 Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown, denied that on May 31, he had the narcotic in his possession, when the charge was read by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry in a city court.
It is the prosecution’s case that around 8 o’clock on the day in question, a party of policemen, acting on information, went to a yard at Cross Street and met Richards in a hut. According to Police Prosecutor Bharat Mangru, the officers found a whitish rock like substance, which they suspected to be cocaine, on a table next to where