–at Five-Miles ‘backdam’

ACTING on a tip-off on Wednesday, the police went into the Five-Miles ‘backdam’ on the Upper Demerara River where they found and destroyed a field of some 3000 ‘ganja’ plants.
They also destroyed the make-shift camp with dry ration, cooking utensils and farming tools they found there, after taking samples and photographs of the evidence.

According to the police, the plants, which were cultivated on approximately one-and-a-half-acres of land, were about two to eight feet in height, and weighed about 400 kilograms in toto.