Miner, city constable in court on ganja charge

Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded a miner and sentenced a City Constable to community service after they both appeared in court charged with possession of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking.

Thirty-nine-year-old miner Winston Peters, of Lot 97 West Front Road, was on Thursday remanded to prison for allegedly having 31 grammes of cannabis in his possession for the purpose of trafficking. He denied the charge when it was read to him in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Police Prosecutor Bharat Mangru said that on December 10, at Seven Miles Mahdia, police on