A Brazilian citizen was charged with having a quantity of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking in the Rupununi and was placed on $50,000 bail by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
Antonio Viera Silva, 47, was charged with having in his possession 1.5 grams of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on May 15 at Central Rupununi.
The magistrate who proceeded to ask the man to
