30,000 ganja plants burned at Ebini on the Upper Berbice River
Guyana Police said ranks destroyed about 30,000 cannabis plants on one and a half acres at Ebini on the Upper Berbice River on 19 April 2018, burned seeds and a camp, and arrested a 25-year-old New Amsterdam man who was assisting their inquiry.
On Thursday 19 April 2018 a police team travelled to Ebini on the Upper Berbice River and destroyed
about 30,000 cultivated cannabis plants on one and a half acres of land, according to a statement
by Superintendent Shivpersaud Bacchus reported by Stabroek News.[1]Guyana Times, citing police
reports, said the plants ranged from one to six feet in height and that officers also found
seeds.[2]
Camp burned, one man held
Police burned the plants and seeds and destroyed a nearby camp, along with a Honda water pump and a
spray can found at the site.[1][2]A 25-year-old resident of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, was
arrested and was assisting investigators; the opened sources do not name him.[1][2]
Bacchus announced the operation on Thursday; both newspapers published their accounts on 20 and
21 April.[1][2]The statements do not report charges filed or link the plot to other Berbice
seizures.[1][2]
Photos and video
Seeds destroyed during the Ebini eradication, in a police photograph published by Stabroek News.Photo details
Guyana Times spells the location Ebuni; Stabroek News uses Ebini; both describe the same Upper Berbice River operation.
Police named no suspect; Stabroek News gives only age and Angoy's Avenue, New Amsterdam.
A separate Kaieteur News story filed the same weekend describes a much smaller find at Ebini Creek with one arrest; the 30,000-plant figure here comes from the police statement reported by Stabroek News and Guyana Times only.
Coordinates mark the Ebini area on the Upper Berbice River rather than the exact plot.
Police spent over seventeen hours destroying seven cannabis cultivations, camps and drying sheds on savannahs at Wiruni and Sandhills, valued at over GY$165 million. No one was arrested; investigations continue.
Plants destroyed 310,500Area 11.3 haCannabis 199.6 kg
In a 12-hour exercise at Wiruni on the Upper Berbice River on 11 October 2026, Guyana Police destroyed four cannabis cultivations of about seven acres holding roughly 37,000 plants, plus a makeshift camp with about 40 pounds of dried cannabis, worth G$26,832,112 combined. No arrests were made.
Guyana police said they burned about 700 plants, 100 pounds of dried cannabis and a makeshift camp at Ebini on 12 September 2026; no arrests were made. Police valued the destroyed narcotics at GY$41,060,440.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 700Area 0.4 haCannabis 45.36 kg
Police spent eleven hours destroying two cannabis farms covering eight acres at Yaruni Bend in the Upper Demerara River, along with two camps and 10 pounds of dried cannabis. No arrests were made.
