An­na-Lisa Paul

Three mem­bers of a Care­nage fam­i­ly were yes­ter­day grant­ed a to­tal of $650,000 bail af­ter they plead­ed not guilty to co­caine pos­ses­sion. Reg­is­tered nurse An­nette Su­perville, 59; her son, Nigel Su­perville, 29; and his girl­friend Sue-Ellen Mc Lean, 31, of Baird Street, Care­nage, ap­peared be­fore Se­nior Mag­is­trate An­nette Mc Ken­zie in the Port-of-Spain Fourth Court. The three were charged with pos­ses­sion of 551 grammes of co­caine for the pur­pose of traf­fick­ing. They were ar­rest­ed around 1.34 pm last Fri­day when po­lice searched their house and al­leged­ly found the co­caine hid­den in a plas­tic bag in a cool­er in the kitchen. The drugs have an ap­prox­i­mate street val­ue of $150,000. The three were rep­re­sent­ed by at­tor­ney Lar­ry Williams yes­ter­day. In mak­ing the bail ap­pli­ca­tion Williams told the court that Nigel Su­perville, a con­struc­tion work­er at the Ch­aguara­mas Dock­yard, had four con­vic­tions, while Mc Lean had two.

Grant­i­ng Nigel bail in the amount of $350,000 to be ap­proved by a Clerk of the Peace III, Mc Ken­zie or­dered him to re­port to the Care­nage Po­lice Sta­tion three times a week. Nigel's moth­er and girl­friend were each grant­ed bail of $150,000, al­so to be ap­proved by a Clerk of the Peace III. Re­quest­ing that the moth­er and girl­friend be grant­ed a cash al­ter­na­tive, Williams ex­plained that there might be some dif­fi­cul­ty with en­sur­ing the req­ui­site ap­proval. Ac­knowl­edg­ing Williams' con­cern, Mc Ken­zie agreed to a cash al­ter­na­tive of $70,000 each and told Williams to in­form the reg­istry if he had any prob­lems in ac­cess­ing the bail. The mat­ter was then ad­journed to Oc­to­ber 15.