Local authorities are currently investigating how 69 kilogrammes of cocaine ended up in a rice shipment which was intercepted in the Dominican Republic eleven days after it departed Guyana.
The grain was shipped by the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) under the Guyana/Venezuela rice deal. This newspaper was told that the route was from Guyana to Jamaica to the Dominican Republic to Venezuela.
Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) head James Singh when contacted confirmed that
