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.

The men are set to reap­pear in the Oistins Mag­is­trate Court on Feb­ru­ary 20 for a bail ap­pli­ca­tion. Skeete’s at­tor­ney has plead­ed with the ju­di­cia­ry not to pro­long the case. He told Bar­ba­dos me­dia that de­lays could leave him, as a non-na­tion­al, lan­guish­ing be­hind bars. His lawyer has asked that the pros­e­cu­tion and in­ves­ti­ga­tors have pre­tri­al dis­clo­sure ur­gent­ly to be able to pre­pare a de­fence in the mat­ter.