Source: Reuters Pubdate: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 APPEAL GETS CAYMAN DRUG SMUGGLERS LONGER SENTENCES GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (Reuters) - Two convicted drug couriers got a bad case of smuggler's blues after they appealed to a Cayman Islands' judge to reduce their sentences. Instead, Judge Henry Graham increased the time they must spend behind bars. The Caribbean News Agency reported Tuesday Paulette Scott, a Jamaican originally sentenced to six months for cocaine smuggling, received four-and-half years after Graham heard her appeal. Her accomplice, Ivan Eubanks of the Cayman Islands, had his two-year sentence raised to five-and-a-half years. "The sooner people from Jamaica realize the maximum sentence they will get here for drugs, the better," CANA quoted Graham as saying. Currently, 63 Jamaicans are serving time in the Cayman Islands on drug offenses out of the British colony's total prison population of 227. - --- Checked-by: Patrick Henry