35,000 suspected cannabis plants burned at Gaetroy Savannah
Guyana police found about 35,000 suspected cannabis plants on three farms covering about five acres at Gaetroy Savannah on 26 July 2026 and burned the plants and a camp. Police valued the destroyed narcotics at GY$11,519,200; no arrests were made.
Guyana Police Force ranks, led by a gazetted officer, conducted a cannabis eradication exercise at Gaetroy Savannah on the Upper Berbice River on Sunday, 26 July 2026, from 07:00 to 16:30.[1][2]They found three farms totalling about five acres, with roughly 35,000 suspected plants ranging from two inches to five feet tall.[1][2]Officers also found one makeshift camp.[1][2]
Police uprooted and burned the plants and camp, valuing the destroyed narcotics at GY$11,519,200.[1][2]No arrests were made, and investigations were continuing in the two reports.[1][2]INews reproduced a police statement, and News Room attributed its account to Police Headquarters; neither article describes an independent count or valuation.[1][2]The reports give one combined area for the three farms, not measurements for each plot, and do not name suspected cultivators.[1][2]News Room’s image caption identifies a section of the farm before it was destroyed, not the burning itself.[1]
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A section of the cannabis farm before it was destroyed, as identified by the article caption.Photo details
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.
