Changing gears now from all that politics - we go to the Belize City magistrate's court where 8 foreigners who were jointly charged with drug trafficking for the importation of over 3,000 pounds of cocaine in September of last year, appeared today before the Chief Magistrate, Sharon Fraser.
They were also charged with abetment to the importation of cocaine and landing an aircraft without the permission of the Minister of Aviation. The prosecutor, corporal Chris Smith, said that the case file is not ready yet and he asked for an adjournment for March 18.
They were taken to court under heavy security that was provided by the GSU.
We spoke to their attorney Dicki Bradley about what juncture the case is at.
Two of the men were represented in court today by attorney Dickie Bradley, while three of them were represented by attorney Oswald Twist.
The Prosecutor said that by March 18 he would have received instructions from the DPP as to in what manner the trial will proceed. The charges arose from a drug bust that in September last year when police tracked down an aircraft that left from Venezuela and landed on the Coastal Road near to La Democracia. The occupants of the aircraft did not surrender easily and there was an exchange of gunfire between them and the police in which two of them were injured.
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