ROYAL POLICE FORCE OF ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA
Office of Strategic Communications (STRATCOM)
MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
OVER ONE MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF COCAINE SEIZED IN BARBUDA
St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda August 4, 2026
The police have seized more than one million dollar’s worth of cocaine, following two separate discoveries along the coastline of Barbuda.
On August 2, a package with twenty (20) vacuum-sealed parcels of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine was seized near the dock at Coco Point.
A second seizure was made the following day, when a similar package containing twenty (20) vacuum-sealed parcels with a substance suspected to be cocaine was discovered along the said Coco Point Beach. The combined seizure weighed 104 pounds, with an estimated street value of EC$1,084,910.00.
The Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has launched a full investigation into the origin of the drugs and is pursuing all available leads to identify those responsible.
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I made a comment in last week’s article when the police made a raid and found a passport tied too Columbia…this confirms that the so call “bad man” and they built a link with Escobar type thugs ..hope them pay the man dem cause the cartel don’t play
Barbuda really in things now. 🤔🤔
Cant find missing people nor thieves😒
Barbuda have 1200 people, there is no how that Barbuda could use that amount of drugs if there was any , them white population that Gaston selling lands to in PLH are unsavory characters that will infest and destroy Barbuda, added to the fact that Gaston would like to take down the barbudans by turning them crackhead so he can take the lands, this is Gaston and the white people project to destroy Barbuda .
Pls my fellow country folk…let’s not show the world how nieve and dottish we really are! For years I’ve been asking how/why is it that we can only find weed!! Location is prime for transshipment of anything…but only weed?? 2005-2015/6 The ONDCP was making waves and the boom they went flaccid …now with a little pressure from the big boys and we’ve “awoken” again? Croft has found his fortitude AGAIN?
People really crazy about Gaston, people lost ah Gaston Browne people drive reckleely ah Gaston Browne people Rob ah Gaston Browne Light came off a Gaston Browne Antigua Water Shortage a Inheritance For Years a Gaston Browne, Gaston Browne Must Of Break Sticks In Their Goat Behind Thank God HE IS So Blessed And Highly Favoured By The Almighty, Gaston Browne Is Bless!!
It is my belief that a large about of this drugs was headed to Antigua. Again I here by submit that the increase of all drugs are linked to the abuse of marijuana. Marijuana is a gateway drug and increase in criminal activities.
Calling in the government of Antigua to ensure that those that have licenses to grow cannabis use it to grow for medical purposes. That is if you have any love for Antigua
Cocaine is the drug of choice for the [elites] and the wanna be elites, of which Barbuda is fast becoming home to.
Additionally, the private jets and mega yachts which have free rein and travel into and out of Barbuda makes it a perfect transshipment point for these drugs and other contrabands, to include guns.,
While most people are focused on the CBI/CIP, overstaying on US Visas, etc, drugs entering the USA [illegally] will definitely play a role in the decision makings on Capitaline Hill regarding citizens of the Nation having easy access to the USA.
Supply & demand of illegal narcotics will get the local criminal elements (white & blue collar) linking up with the International Orders.
Yes, illegal drugs make some people rich, rich, rich; but for the most part it will destroy many, many more lives who’re the foot soldiers.
These so called “drug busts” are simply for photo optics, sound bites, media campaigns for law enforcement and poliTRICKtans to look good in the eyes of those whom they’re deceiving.
Jumbee_Picknee aka Ras Smood
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Vere Edwards
Do you notice the topic is always the seizure of drugs. They then come off as if they’re really doing something by demonstrating to us the naive, huge progress is being made in the elimination of drugs entering our shores and streets, but not once have they come out and tell us they finally put down a big or small drug ring operating in and across our country, while posting their faces for all to see. Anywhere rich white people settled with their million dollar yachts and planes, drugs will follow and our authorities are fully aware, so this whole episode is like a movie with a lot of cover up taking place.
With the large quantities of cocaine floating up on the beaches of Barbuda. Is this what Jumby Bay on steroids is all about?
Rather than the ANU Government acknowledging their mistake and the open border they have created for major drug trafficking; we will get amateurism and musing of many including University lecturers and Vice Chancellors.
Authorities will issue bland PR statements; play down this disaster and blame everyone else’s but themselves for Barbuda becoming a drug transshipment center.
This is the consequence of the ill fated idea of bringing luxury development to Barbuda.
Previous unanswered questions and the lack of universal outrage about the murders of Nigel Christian and Asot Micheal will make this another passing event.
In a world of fast moving and widespread availability of information; it will be the responsibility of of some young US diplomats stationed in Barbados to report this event up to both Secretary of State and and Secretary of Defence (Peace)
This unfortunate situation is good bye for any concessions on the new immigration policy towards Antigua.