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A cargo vessel that originated in Guyana and was headed to French/Dutch island of St Martin, was searched in the waters off Trinidad on Wednesday.

In what police described as a sealed compartment, they discovered 157 packets of cocaine, weighing more than 182 kilogrammes, with a local street value of more than a quarter billion dollars.

Some of the packets carried the ‘Toyota’ logo,  similar to packages on some of the cocaine found when they searched a Sports Utility vehicle in a hotel car park in Chaguaramas in May 2023, -168 packets worth more than $234 million.