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A To­bag­on­ian fish­er­man is among five men de­nied bail and re­mand­ed to Dodds Prison in con­nec­tion with the seizure of 580.85 kilo­grammes of cannabis in Bar­ba­dos.

Forty-year-old Roy­dell Skeete, of Sandy Hill Trace, To­ba­go, along with four Bar­ba­di­an na­tion­als, ap­peared be­fore the No 1 Dis­trict “A” Mag­is­trates Court on Fri­day, where they were de­nied bail.

The men face mul­ti­ple charges, in­clud­ing drug pos­ses­sion, traf­fick­ing, and im­por­ta­tion. Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, the drugs, val­ued at $4.6 mil­lion Bar­ba­dos dol­lars, were al­leged­ly seized by mem­bers of the Bar­ba­dos Po­lice Ser­vice Nar­cotics Di­vi­sion on Welch­es Beach, Christ Church, on Feb­ru­ary 9. Skeete was al­leged­ly the cap­tain of the ves­sel on which the drugs were seized.