10,000 cannabis plants destroyed at Kairuni farm; two men arrested
Guyana Police Force narcotics officers destroyed about 10,000 cannabis plants covering roughly two acres at Kairuni on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, along with a nursery of seedlings and an abandoned camp. Two men were arrested and held in custody while police investigated.
Police narcotics branch investigators carried out a drug eradication operation
at Kairuni along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway on Saturday 13 September 2014.[1]Officers found a field of about two acres, roughly 0.81 hectares, growing some
10,000 cannabis sativa plants about one foot tall.[2]The police said a
nursery with seedlings and an abandoned camp stood at the site, and that the
plants were all destroyed.[3]
Two men were arrested and were in police custody assisting with the
investigations.[2]The account came from a statement by the Guyana Police
Force, which the outlets published with their reports the next day.[2]Kaieteur News reported that police destroyed the two acres of marijuana during a
raid in the Soesdyke/Linden Highway area.[3]
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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.
