Over 200 lbs of cocaine netted in Haslington bust

Acting on a tip-off, a team of police officers yesterday afternoon swooped on a house at the Haslington New Scheme, on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD), where they discovered more than 100 kilos (200 lbs) of cocaine stashed in Hindu religious items being prepared for shipment to Canada.

The cocaine, estimated to have a street value of more than $600M, may be linked to a drug find at the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) main branch in the city yesterday, in which more than three kilos of cocaine in total were discovered in three letters