Miner on ganja trafficking charge

Miner Albert Richards, who police allege was found with 35 grammes of cannabis at Ekereku, Cuyuni, was yesterday remanded to prison on a drug trafficking charge.

It is the police’s case that on September 23, Richards, 41, had the cannabis in his possession in a room that he was staying in at the time the police carried out a search on it.

Police Prosecutor Bharrat Mangru informed Magistrate Fabayo Azore  at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday