POLICE report that at about 23:45hrs on Saturday, two men pretending to be customers entered a Campbellville hotel, pulled out firearms and held up 31-year-old Rondell Orlando who was at the bar with two other men. They relieved him of US$3,000, Gy$40,000 and two cell phones before escaping in a waiting vehicle.

Orlando was shot to his left side during the incident, and has been admitted to hospital, but investigations are continuing.

And on Sunday, police ranks conducting a search on a man at the Itaballi checkpoint in Mazaruni, unearthed an unlicensed 9mm pistol with seven rounds.

He has been arrested and is in police custody assisting with the investigations.

Bandits shoot Mexican tourist at hotel

A 31-year-old Mexican man, had his Guyanese vacation spoiled when robbers shot him at around 23:45 hrs on Saturday at a hotel in Campbellville.
The attackers escaped with US$3,000, GY$40,000 and two cell phones.
The victim, Rondell Orlando is being treated at a private hospital, nursing a gunshot wound to his left side. He is expected to undergo surgery soon.
Police in a release said that two men entered the hotel and pretended to be customers during which they pulled out a firearm and held up Orlando and two others at the hotel’s bar.

Injured: Rondell Orlando

The 31-year-old man was shot in the process and the perpetrators escaped in a waiting car.
At the hospital yesterday, a friend of the wounded man who was also a victim of the robbery said that they were hanging out when the robbery occurred.
He explained that the robbers entered the hotel while a third accomplice stayed outside. He added that about two minutes later, the two men demanded that everyone lie on the floor.
Orlando, this newspaper was told, took a while before he got down on the floor, since he only speaks Spanish. “That’s when they shoot him,” the friend said.
Investigators are reviewing surveillance camera at the hotel.
It is Orlando’s first time in Guyana.