While questions linger over how US$12 million worth of cocaine stashed in a frozen shrimp shipment managed to get by customs and law enforcement here and make it to the United States, Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan said the new government will be taking a serious approach to drug trafficking.
During an interview on Friday, Ramjattan put traffickers on notice that they will be caught. “We are going to get you. Come what may, we are going to get you,” he said, while noting that apart from interception, the government would be paying attention to how drugs are coming into the country and how they are prepared and later exported.
The cocaine in shrimp is the latest shipment originating here that has been intercepted by US authorities. Additionally, drug mules continue to be captured at the country’s two major airports with cocaine either on their person or in their luggage before boarding flights as
