Two remanded on ganja, gun charges

Two men were on Monday remanded to prison on charges of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking, cultivating a prohibited plant, and unlawful weapons possession, after they appeared before Magistrate Sueanna Lovell at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.

Komal Persaud and Pooran Singh, on August 31, at the West Bank Demerara (WBD), allegedly had in their possession 105 kilogrammes of cannabis for the purpose of trafficking. On the same day the