BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Feb 4, CMC -Magistrate Manila Rene has remanded three fishermen, including a father and son, to prison until March 3, after they appeared before her on charges linked to the seizure of more than BDS$33 million (One BDS$=US$0.50 cents) worth of cocaine last Wednesday.
Sylverton Lewis Clarke, 55, his 33 year-old son, Renaldo Jabari Carrington and Ryan Adrian Kelly-Prescod, 39, are accused of unlawfully having within the Exclusive Economic Zone established by the Marine Boundaries and Jurisdiction Act, ocaine, a controlled drug, in their possession.
They are also charged with intending to supply and trafficking the 676 kilogrammes of the drug with an estimated street value of BDS$33.8 million.
The accused were not required to plead to the indictable offences when they appeared before Magistrate Renee with the prosecution objecting to bail citing the strength of the evidence, the men were held at sea, and one of them had no fixed address.
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