by Linda Straker
- Former RGPF communication specialist charged with cultivation and possession of controlled drug
- 12 cannabis trees found on residential property
Troy Garvey, former communication specialist with the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF), was on Thursday, 13 August 2020 arrested and charged with cultivation and possession of a controlled drug.
Law enforcement officers attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) reportedly found 12 cannabis trees in the backyard of his residential property in Springs, St George. He was then detained, charged and placed on EC$10,000 bail.
Police have confirmed that the 59-year-old Garvey whose profession is labelled as freelance consultant was charged and is scheduled to appear at the St George’s Magistrate Court on 20 October 20 2020.
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Well,well, in all my days growing up on my Island after i started out under a head master whose name was Mr. CEASER he was also a deacon in the Anglican church he said God made Adam,then made Eve not Steve with all the things in Grenada to work for betterment on 12 cabanas trees is all there are interested in. How about the man who is now the President of the Senate the same man who shipped some illegal things to Grenada in a barrel of grease and today finds himself in the same boat with Trinidad’s Jack Warner ,wanted by the USA , but he is the President of the Senate,i am not condoning wrong but let your right and left hands wash your foot.
Well how much pounds it weigh for them to charge him, its herbs not drugs. When dem police thiefing it and giving people ro sell for them it ok but they see it fit to arrest the man for ten litrle trees, what stupidness is that
This is something that really gets to me, because white people have figured out how to grow Ganja in the northern hemisphere under controlled conditions so it can survive their climate like tobacco, change the name to medical marijuana and making millions of dollars in profit and we in the Caribbean still dotish and locking up black people for growing it natural. We should be exporting it as a source of foreign exchange.
Release Troy Garvey now.
I have never smoked a joint in my life!
I however find it 100% unfair that i can legally smoke a cigarette but not a joint.
Similarly, i can drink a bottle of clarkscort but not take a sip of the bushrum that i brewed.
Neither the Bush rum nor the joint has an ounce of chemical. Yes the cigarette & clarks court are packed with chemical.
It is time to take these colonial laws- made to profit big business at the expense of lives- off our books..
Stupes!! Next!!
Since when people on this soil are subject to Canadian or USA law? What a messy state we in when illegal activity is condoned by referring to inapplicable principles. Thought it was necessary to abide by the laws that govern us.
Try Jesus. He never fails
It’s not just US laws, we actually made it ours.
It shows how a powerful minority in the US influenced the world in banning a plant that they couldn’t compete with.
And still today we lick their feet and enforce they biased stupidity.
How I see it the law is the law even if it was one tree same apply.
You can do wrong and try to justify by saying we have bigger problems or some countries it is legal, we are not SOME countries, we GRENADA and in grenada it is illegal…….no no
I would think we have much bigger issues than 12 marijuana trees in someone’s back yard even if it is Troy Garvey. Marijuana is legalised in so many countries now. This is just proof of how backward we are.
Isn’t there something else to post than trying to ridicule people? Marijuana is legal in Canada. I don’t want to live and or retire in Grenada. Too much now. F**K Grenada and it’s dictatorship.
I agree with you on this. During the PRG the moto was “forward ever backward never.” Now it’s “forward never backward ever” I swear. thank goodness I chose a life elsewhere otherwise might be eating mud for dinner. a few marijuana trees with no intention to distribute is not an offense that warrants an arrest anywhere in the world nowadays they desperately needs some upgrades..on this island.
So what you would say for Trinidad?.