Smuggler found with birds in hair curlers during airport search

Caught trying to smuggle 25 songbirds out of the country by hiding them in hair curlers in his luggage, Nazeem Karim was yesterday fined and disqualified from obtaining an import and export licence

Karim, of Lot 3 ‘C’ Clonbrook, had initially been brought before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Monday and had been remanded to