More than two weeks after his client, confessed drug trafficker Leonard Bacchus, received a suspended sentence, Member of Parliament and lawyer James Bond has been accused by the PPP/C of being “in bed with the criminal underworld;” an accusation Bond has dismissed as senseless and a distraction by the PPP/C.
In a statement issued on Thursday evening, the PPP/C also accused A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Bond’s party, of being duplicitous on the issue of drug trafficking in Guyana. It pointed out that Bond, a senior APNU member, had represented Bacchus who received a 5-year suspended period for trafficking in nearly 150 pounds of cocaine.
“…APNU leader Mr David Granger has on several occasions in the past described Guyana as a narco-state and chastised government for
