Batavia cocaine accused further remanded

Jun 21, 2011 News

Deonarine Singh, of Friendship, East Bank Demerara; 32-year-old Randolph ‘Fatboy’ Singh; 34-year-old Clyn Collier, of South Ruimveldt; and Garcia Luis Alberto, of Venezuela who were arrested following the billion-dollar cocaine bust at Batavia in the Cuyuni River, yesterday made their second court appearance before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
The fifth suspect, Terry James, also known as Terry Jones, was unable to make his appearance due to his medical condition. The court was told that James has been re-admitted to Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on Sunday.
Magistrate Beharry requested a report on James’s medical condition. She stated that the case can only be heard when all the defendants are present.
The prosecutor also requested that the matter be heard in the Georgetown Magisterial District causing the magistrate to defer ruling on that issue.
Defence Counsel, Vic Puran, then told the court that his client, James, was deprived the opportunity to have his counsel represent him when he made his appearance in court. Puran further informed the court that at the time James was brought to court he was patently ill and was unable to walk or speak coherently.
Mr. Puran also told the court that he was present in the building at the time they brought his client, Terry James, to court and he was not notified.
Puran went on to say that before James was re-admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital he was being kept in the general prison population and not in the prison infirmary.
The matter has since been adjourned to June 24.
The police acted on a “tip off” when they intercepted a vessel with a large quantity of cocaine at Batavia, located some eight kilometers (five miles) up the Cuyuni River and about 24 kilometers south of Bartica.
The cocaine with an estimated street value of US$5million ($1B) was found stashed in four large plastic containers on a vessel named “Amor”. That vessel was powered by two 75-horsepower outboard engines.
Guyana is considered to be a major transshipment point for cocaine and in recent months, Jamaican authorities intercepted two ships that originated from Guyana with large quantities of cocaine.
Some 122 kilograms of cocaine in a consignment of timber from Guyana, was discovered in a ship that stopped in Jamaica.
Jamaican authorities made the discovery on aboard the MV Vega Azurit which had departed last March.
Several persons were questioned in Guyana in connection with the drug bust, but no charges were ever instituted.

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