Two weeks after he was remanded to jail on a drug trafficking charge, businessman and owner of the Blue Iguana club, Royston Peniston will have to remain behind bars, after an attempt to secure bail from the High Court failed.

Peniston through his Attorneys, approached the High Court for bail on the drug trafficking charges. But the Court was not convinced that he ought to be granted bail, and upheld the lower Court’s decision to remand him to jail.

The 44-year-old man was arrested at his Festival City home two weeks ago by agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit, after a search of the property uncovered more than five pounds of cocaine stashed in the false sides of two suitcases.

CANU believes the suitcases had been prepared for a possible cocaine shipment to the United States using someone else.

Peniston entered a not guilty plea to the drug trafficking charges and was remanded to jail until the 3rd April, when the case will continue.

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