85,000 cannabis plants destroyed in nine Yarrowkabra fields
Police destroyed nine cannabis fields holding about 85,000 plants, seven nurseries with seedlings and three camps at Yarrowkabra on 18 September 2013. No arrests were made.
Police ranks conducted a narcoticseradication operation at Yarrowkabra on the Soesdyke-Linden Highway on 18 September 2013.[1]Nine fields of cannabis plants, comprising approximately 85,000 plants ranging in height between three and ten feet, were found and destroyed along with seven nurseries with seedlings and three camps.[1]
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.