Community service, $5,000 fine for two grams ganja

A 30-year-old man who accepted that he had two grams of cannabis in his possession was yesterday fined $5,000 and ordered to do six weeks of community service when he appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Dwayne Griffith pleaded guilty with explanation to the charge which stated that on May 14 at Georgetown he had in his possession two grams of cannabis.

When given a chance to respond to the possession of narcotics charge, Griffith who resides at 1010 A&B Cemetery Road, Lodge, said that the