The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) recently dismissed appeal applications from three Barbadian men wanted in the United States as part of a drug trafficking ring that also ensnared two Guyanese.
In 2004, Sean Gaskin, Frederick Christopher Hawkesworth and John Wayne Scantlebury were indicted in the US along with Guyanese Raphael Douglas and Terrence Sugrim. The men were being sought for trafficking between Guyana, Barbados, St Lucia and the US and it was alleged that they committed the crimes between January 1999 and March 27, 2004.
While the Barbadian trio was fighting extradition, Douglas
