Police destroy nursery of 35,000 seedlings at Kaiwa, Berbice River
In a second Berbice River exercise on 13 April 2024, Guyana Police destroyed two cannabis farms at Kaiwa: a five-acre plot with a 35,000-seedling nursery and a two-acre plot with 2,000 plants, plus 34 kg of dried cannabis. No one was arrested.
A day after the Wiruni operation, police carried out another eradication exercise at Kaiwa
in the Upper Berbice River area between 05:30 and 12:30 hours on Saturday 13 April 2024,
and destroyed two cannabis farms.[1][2]
The first farm was about five acres in size with some 1,000 seedlings planted on beds,
alongside a nursery holding about 35,000 seedlings; a large camp there held about 34.019
kilograms of dried cannabis valued at G$30,617,100.[1][2]A second farm about 100 feet
away covered two acres with about 2,000 plants, estimated at 2,200 kilograms and valued at
G$338,800.[1][2]The farms, the nursery, the camp and the narcotics were all destroyed.[1][2]
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.
