A 60-year-old woman smuggled cannabis into Bermuda hidden in a case of Jamaican rum, a Supreme Court jury was told yesterday.

Priscilla Delores Williams, of Bulkhead Drive, Warwick, is alleged to have imported 153.9 grams of the drug into Bermuda, and to have possessed it with intent to supply.

Crown counsel Oonagh Vaucrosson said the case centred around events at Bermuda International Airport on January 5 this year when Williams returned to the Island from Jamaica on a charter flight.

The defendant was searched at Customs, and the cannabis was found among her belongings, said Ms Vaucrosson.

The first witness in the case, Detective Constable Steven Palmer of the Forensic Support Unit, described the box in which the drugs were allegedly brought into the Island.

The case, marked Jamaica Rums and Liquors, contained three bottles of rum and had a a side that had been cut open to conceal a packet of cannabis, he said.

The bottles had been examined for fingerprints by another Police officer and had proved negative.

Principle Compliance Officer Carlton Saunders, of the Department of Immigration, gave evidence that Williams had departed Bermuda on December 17 2004 and had indicated on her departure card her intent to stay at the Gloriana Hotel in Jamaica.

Williams denies the charges against her, and the case continues.