Police destroy 12,000 cannabis plants and 80,000 seedlings at Kamuni Creek
Police destroyed an eight-acre cannabis field with about 12,000 plants, four nurseries holding some 80,000 seedlings, 40 kg of dried marijuana and a camp at Kamuni Creek in September 2011. No arrests were made.
Police ranks conducted a drug eradication operation at Kamuni on the Demerara River and found an eight-acre field under cannabis cultivation, about 3.24 hectares.[1]The field held about 12,000 cannabis sativa plants at an average height of five feet.[1]
The site also held four nurseries with approximately 80,000 seedlings, 40 kilogrammes of dried cannabis and a tarpaulin camp.[1]Everything the operation uncovered, the plants, the seedlings, the dried stock and the camp, was destroyed.[1]
No arrests
No one was arrested during the operation, and the account names no suspects behind the field and nurseries.[1]
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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.
