Georgetown: The Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) head, James Singh says because of new markets emerging and prices drugs are being sent to Europe, Africa, Asia and as far as the Middle East.
Recently (CANU) destroyed 431 kilos of cocaine and marijuana during an eradication exercise on Homestretch Avenue.
These contained cocaine disguised as fish food, in Fernleaf milk tins, in custard powder packets, cologne gift sets, greeting cards and even in beverage bottles.
Ranks of the narcotics branch also demonstrated a test to show reporters who were present how to test for cocaine. On display yesterday was also a bag of 17 large pellets which had been swallowed by a drug mule.
“The total quantity we have here is 401 kilos of cocaine and 30.5 kilos of marijuana”, Singh said. Singh told reporters that the total value of the cocaine that was destroyed yesterday, on the American market is an average US$14M but in European countries the value would have been much more. The marijuana had a street value of US$300,000.
The CANU official noted that collaborating with other agencies has produced an excellent outcome. “These are just some of the fruits of that relationship as I said from the beginning that the drugs that are seized these days are results by CANU and other agencies including the police narcotics branch,” Singh said.
Singh said that he could not say exactly what quantity of drugs is being shipped into Guyana but said that because the country’s geological location which many times serves as a transshipment point for traffickers, there are a lot more seizes.
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