FIFTY-two-year-old John Duncan of Lot 15 Maria Johanna, Essequibo was on Monday refused bail by Magistrate Ann McLennan on two narcotics charges. 

The defendant, a farmer, pleaded not guilty to the two charges he faced, which detailed that (a): On Saturday, December 13, at Maria Johanna, Essequibo, he had in his possession 154 grammes of cannabis-sativa (marijuana) for the purpose of trafficking.
Particulars of the other charge are that (b): On the same day, at Maria Johanna, he also had in his possession 8 grammes of the said prohibited drug.

Duncan was remanded to prison for both charges, and the matter was transferred to the Wakenaam Magistrate’s Court for December 24.