A Guyanese national who attempted to smuggle cocaine and cannabis into Barbados more than five years ago has been sentenced to time served and will be deported.

Justice Pamela Beckles sentenced Collis Arlington Paul to 12 years’ imprisonment for trafficking 1.29 kilogrammes of cannabis and 607.81 grammes of cocaine within Barbados’ territorial waters, and to 10 years for possession and importation of the drugs, all on March 28, 2021. The sentences are to run concurrently.

Paul, along with three other men, was intercepted by the Coast Guard in a vessel within Barbados’ territorial waters, 20 nautical miles off South Point. The vessel contained 22 bags holding 343 packages of cannabis and cocaine.