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Guns, ganja seized in Berbice River eradication exercise
Ranks of the Guyana Police Force on Wednesday conducted yet another major drug eradication exercise in the Berbice River.
During the mo
re than 12-hour operations at Ebini River, six fields with an estimated 600,000 cannabis plants measuring between four inches and five feet in height were found, photographed and destroyed together with four camps and about two hundred kilograms of dried cannabis.
The camp that was set alight
The recovered guns and cartridges
Two unlicensed shotguns and 55 live cartridges were also found.
No arrests have been made but investigators are in the process of tracing the owner(s) of the land.
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