Courier nabbed at JFK with 50 lbs cocaine

-was to be paid US$6,000

Questions are being raised as to how authorities at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri failed to detect a suitcase with some 24 kilogrammes of cocaine which was intercepted later at the JFK airport in New York.

The pink suitcase with an orange rainbow containing the cocaine was checked in on a Delta Airlines flight on Tuesday by Dorothy Sears who US officials said also had marijuana stuffed in her brassiere.