A St Peter man has been fined $6 000 for trafficking more than 100 kilogrammes of cannabis, after the court considered the inordinate delay in the matter, his positive pre-sentence report and his limited role in the offence.

Junior Ricardo Emmanuel of Six Men’s Development, St Peter, had pleaded guilty in the No. 5A Supreme Court during a previous sitting to having 107.5 kilos of cannabis in his possession and to having a traffickable quantity of cannabis while within Barbados’ territorial waters on September 26, 2008.

Justice Christopher Birch said:  “I accept based on the facts that you were not the mastermind behind this. I accept from your allocutus that at the time you were much younger and your judgment is not what it is now. I have taken note of the findings of the probation department that you are someone who has since that time straightened yourself out, and you are a law-abiding citizen today. I accept that you have a low risk of reoffending. However, it falls to the court to express its profound disapproval of your actions back then.”