He was a crewmember for a Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship but police say 29 year old Jamaican Jermaine Jaipaul was also a drug peddler or a would-be drug peddler. Yesterday security officers on the Royal Caribbean Cruise Ship "Navigator of the Seas" found him with a parcel of white powder believed to be cocaine taped to the inside of his thighs. The ship was 5 miles out of Belize City - but they figured he had picked up the drugs when he came onshore, so they called the CIB Office in Belize City.
He was arrested and the powder was sent for testing. And while it looked like cocaine and was concealed like cocaine, it was not. A test showed that it was just non-narcotic white powder. But still, police believe that Jaipaul had bought what he thought was cocaine - which is still an offence - but not nearly as serious as trafficking cocaine. He was charged with the rarely used offence: "supplying a substance other than controlled drugs."
