A THIRTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD woman and her daughter, 18, were remanded to prison yesterday, on drug trafficking charges. Bibi Abdul and Nadia Abdul, both of Lot 41 Dowding Street, Kitty, Georgetown, appeared before Magistrate Allan Wilson and pleaded not guilty to the offences.
Particulars of a joint charge said, on February 22, they trafficked in cannabis (marijuana) by selling four grammes of it to undercover Police Lance Corporal Edoo.
The mother alone faced an additional charge, which said, the same day, she had 210 grammes of the same narcotic in her possession for the purpose.
Defence Counsel Adrian Thompson represented bail for the defendants on the joint charge, submitting that the law provides for it in some cases.
The lawyer said Nadia recently left school and is living with her mother but has no knowledge of the narcotic.
However, Police Sergeant Tracymay Gittens, prosecuting, successfully objected to the grant, pointing out that Bibi Abdul has a case of a similar nature pending in another court.
The Abduls, who were among the remanded prisoners in yesterday’s drug cases, will remain on remand until March 13.
Another prisoner, 53-year-old Brian Small suffered the same fate on charges of possession and trafficking narcotics.
Particulars of his offences said, the defendant, of Lot 77 Campbellville Housing Scheme, also in the city, had seven grammes of marijuana on February 22 and sold four grammes to Edoo for $1,000.
The defendant begged to be granted bail, lamenting that he has a sick father and two minor children, who are attending school, for whom to care.
The magistrate informed Small that he can only do what the law permits him by placing him on $50,000 bail in the possession case but sent him on remand with respect to the trafficking charge and ordered him to return on March 13.

Meanwhile, Dexter Wills, 42, of Lot 120 Prospect, East Bank Demerara, was also remanded on a trafficking in narcotic charge.
He pleaded not guilty to the February 22 offence, particulars of which said he had 46 grammes of cannabis (marijuana) in his possession for the purpose.
But Defence Counsel Omeyana Hamilton, who made an unsuccessful application for bail, claimed the policeman who arrested Wills had a previous misunderstanding with him and that he was framed.
However, the prosecutor said the drug was found on the defendant in two ziplock bags.
That case, as well, will be called, again, on March 13.