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The body of a Corentyne man was on Thursday afternoon found in a trench at Topu, a village in close proximity to Albion.
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Two businessmen gunned down in Friendship
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Two men who were gunned down on Sunday night at Friendship on the East Bank of Demerara in what is considered a hit and the year’s first case of homicide.
Dead is poultry businessman David Singh aka “Fix-Up” , who is well known in the Orange Walk area in the city where he operates his livestock business. Twenty –four year old cattle farmer Hasradeen Hussain of Mahaica was also shot and succumbed while receiving medical attention.
According to reports, the men were leaving a game bird competition venue at Friendship when they were confronted by their assailants and shot in the vicinity of the Friendship Secondary School. Singh died on the spot; Hussain who was shot once to the chest. The men were heading out to the East Bank Demerara Public Road at the time. Police are investigating the incident.
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Jilted man torches girlfriend on Old Year’s Night
Jan 04, 2017 News 0 Comments
A goldminer who became annoyed after his girlfriend tried to end their relationship is accused of throwing gasoline on the woman and setting her on fire.
REMANDED: Roy English
Roy English, 42, of Tiger Creek, is alleged to have unlawfully and maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm to Yvonne Richmond on December 31, 2016 at Three Mile Junction, Tumatumari, Potaro River.
English, who was unrepresented, appeared in court with his head wrapped in bandage.
He was not required to plead to the indictable charge read to him yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
The court was told that English and the woman shared a relationship and lived together. According to Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones, the man became annoyed when the woman tried to end their relationship.
In a fit of rage, English drenched Richmond in gasoline and set her on fire.
She was picked up and rushed to the hospital. She sustained second degree burns to her right eye and foot.
When asked if he had any objections to bail for the accused, Police Prosecutor Deniro Jones replied in the affirmative and pointed to the injuries Richmond sustained.
Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan upheld the objections and remanded English to prison until January 13, when he will appear in the Mahdia Magistrate’s Court.
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3-year-old held at knife point during East Canje home invasion
Jan 04, 2017 News 0 Comments
After barely settling into the New Year, an East Canje family is now suffering over $400,000 in losses after a lone bandit broken into their home on Monday evening and escaped with gold jewelry, cash and electronics. 
Drupattie Karran, 21, was at her Lot 40 Besty Ground, East Canje home with her three-year-old son when the bandit struck.
Her husband, employed as an Estate lorry driver, was not at home at the time.
The woman stated that at 11:30 pm, she awoke to find a dark figure holding a knife to her son’s neck.
“Like he break in from the back door and come in and when he done search up de place, he come in de room and put the knife to me son neck. Me wake up and see he and start scream and he run out.”
Karran told Kaieteur News that it is habitual to leave the bedroom door open when her husband is not at home so the man had easy access to the room.
She added that after alerting neighbours, they immediately contacted the Reliance Police Station only to be told that there was no vehicle present to transport the officers to the scene.
“We call dem and they said that no vehicle nah deh fuh dem come. Me husband go wid a car and collect the officer and dem come back and all he do is walk around the house and tek down we address. Before he go away, he said that police gonna come back and take pictures.”
The bandit escaped with two laptop computers valued $250,000; one cell phone valued $18,000; a pair of earrings, four gold rings, a gold band and one silver chain valuing an estimated total of $150,000 and an undisclosed amount of cash.
Karran is pleading with the police to conduct a thorough investigation since this is the third successful attempt bandits have made to break into their home.
Investigations are ongoing. Up to press time, no arrests were made.
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City Constable chopped in head
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A CITY Constable identified as Satesh Boodho was chopped in his head, allegedly by three young men on Water Street, Georgetown,in front of the old Guyana Stores storage bond at around 15:30hrs.
While details remain sketchy, eyewitnesses told the Guyana Chronicle that the Constable was being chased by three young men, when one of them, wearing a “white polo shirt and black pants” dealt Boodho two chops to his head.
Eyewitnesses also recounted that both Boodho and his attacker fell on the pavement while a struggle seemingly ensued for the firearm being carried by Boodho. The three men reportedly made their escape shortly after and the firearm was recovered.
One vendor, who prefers to remain anonymous said, “All I see is them man come running down and all of we had to run helter-skelter.” However, more details could not be given since all vendors and passers-by who were at the scene scampered away to avoid being injured also.
The Guyana Chronicle was at the scene of the crime but could not ascertain from the police as to what weapon was used to inflict the wound.Investigations are still ongoing.
While at the Georgetown Public Hospital, the Guyana Chronicle was informed that Boodho was chopped to the middle, top of his head and at the right side of his head, just above his ear.
Also at the hospital was Superintendent of the City Constabulary, Gordon Langevine, who said, “Al I know, is that a member of the City Constabulary was injured while executing his duties and we are investigating the matter.”
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A TWO-STOREY house in Number 59 Village, East Berbice, Corentyne, was on Friday destroyed after it was set ablaze by a young man who had a fight with his father.
The reason for the fight is not known, but according to reports, the son is in the habit of being abusive towards his parents and others.
Vekanand Dhanraj, called “Rishie boy”, 21, was reportedly intoxicated when he set ablaze the car his mother had purchased for him six months ago; the car was parked at the bottom of the house.
The fire from the blazing car quickly engulfed the lower-flat of the home and spread to the entire house within minutes.
The Fire Service was informed of the blaze, but by the time they arrived, the house was already destroyed.
According to information, “Rishie boy” had before threatened to destroy the home he shares with his mother and father.
The Dhanraj family less than a year ago re-migrated to Guyana.
A neighbor, Kamini Bahadur, said she was doing some chores when someone called out to her shouting Fire!
“Them say come see what this waste man do, come see so I go see the car on fire under the house so I call out for everybody who did start gather out on the street to bring out their bucket and come to help out the fire, but it was already catching on the downstairs part.”
Villagers say “Rishie boy” would always drink and “perform and verbally abuse passersby and would also abuse his parents”.
Another neighbour said on Christmas Eve, he was heavily intoxicated and used a cutlass to chop the house and at the same time threw out several pieces of furniture.
“He was on the dam cussing up saying nobody nah deh home to beat so me gon beat up the house so me see he around the house with the cutlass and he just deh ah lash it up.”
Meanwhile, on Friday, it is reported that the young man and his father were involved in a fight when he reportedly set the car ablaze.
“They were both drunk and when the fire started, the father was laying on the bridge and some persons had to lift him to safety…. I think he beat his father up but afterwards they were ok. He (Rishie) would treat his parents bad all the time; sometimes his mother have to leave home when he start behave like that.”
The family estimates their losses in the millions. Vekanand Dhanraj was subsequently arrested and remains in police custody, pending investigations.
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CCTV capture bare-faced bandits breaking into goods van
Jan 08, 2017 News 0 Comments
– Captured on CCTV
About three men in a black Toyota Raum were seen shortly after noon, yesterday, breaking into and emptying a grocery can which was parked just off the high bridge at the La Penitence Market, Georgetown.
The arrows show the black Raum (left) and the goods van (right).
From the footage, the registration number on the front of the vehicle appears to be HC 5334 or HC 5354. The number plate on the back of the car appears to be different from the one on the front—it reads HC 3344 or HC 1344.
Based on the CCTV footage, the black Raum came out of Hogg Street, Albouystown and parked at the junction of Sussex (eastern side) and Saffon Streets. Its occupants observed salespersons removing a load of goods from the van and taking it into the market.
When the workers entered the market, the Raum turned onto Saffon Street and parked alongside the grocery van where one of its occupants first exited and went into the market through the first gate. Another accomplice also exited the vehicle and went into the market.
Shortly after, the second suspect returned to the van from the same gate while his accomplice, who first entered the market, came back to the van after exiting the market from its side gate which is on the western side of Sussex Street.
When the two suspects came back to the van, the footage showed one of them breaking the window with an object and he began emptying the stocks into the Raum with the help of the other suspect. The driver did not exit the Raum. The men then re-entered the vehicle and drove south along Saffon Street.
A police car even passed while the men were parked alongside the goods van, observing the surrounding.
The stallholder, who lost his stocks, said that his workers had just entered the market with one load and when they returned to the van they noticed it was emptied.
The suspects escaped with two bags containing milk powder, three cases of one pound butter and one case of mayonnaise.
A report was made at the Ruimveldt Police Station. Only a few weeks ago, the stallholder’s mother was robbed at gunpoint as she was getting into a taxi. No one was arrested.
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Sophia house set on fire by jilted lover
FIRE suspected to be the work of an arsonist gutted the Roberts home at ‘A’ Field Sophia on Saturday night.
Reports are that the fire may have been started by a jilted man who had threatened a female occupant of the house. The woman had planned on attending an Old School party at the National Park and she was reportedly warned by her partner not to attend.
She nevertheless left for the show earlier in the evening and the man threatened to harm the family. Firefighters rushed to the scene as the house was engulfed in flames.
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THE Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) had its first seizure for the year with the arrest of a 24-year old Guyanese woman who was busted Wednesday with 4.2 kilograms of cocaine in her possession at the Eugene F. Correia International Airport.Head of CANU, James Singh told the Guyana Chronicle that the drug was stashed in a suitcase that belonged to the woman who was preparing to board a flight to Antigua and Barbuda. Reports reveal that the woman is a frequent traveller. The cocaine was discovered in packets in the sides of her suitcases.
The drug mule was identified as Clarabel Thompson and she is expected to face charges soon.
Meanwhile, Singh during the recent launch of the National Drug Strategy Master Plan (NDSMP) had noted the importance of collaboration with partners, both locally and internationally, especially with the emergence of new and innovative methods of drug trafficking.
The four-year plan aims at tackling the rising use and transport of licit and illicit drugs.
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In Granger's Guyana, the police is now the thiefman:
Cop turns Thief! – caught in the act, tied up and beaten
Jan 09, 2017 News 0 Comments
By day, he was a policeman, but it appears that by night, the same rank became a professional thief.
The embarrassing state of affairs came to light at around 03.00 hrs yesterday, when a resident of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara, heard strange noises in his unoccupied, upper flat. He reportedly also heard footsteps.
The man said that he alerted his son-in law, and after checking outside the property, the two ventured to the area from which the sounds had come.
The cop in the victim’s
house
“From the minute we went upstairs, a man ran under the sink,” the resident said.
The resident said that the intruder then ran to them shouting “I is a policeman, I is a policeman, I got a gun.”
He allegedly then scrambled one of the men, but they eventually subdued and tied the thief.
They then contacted ranks from the Timehri Police Station. Three ranks arrived, and it was they who confirmed that the would-be burglar was indeed a police rank, who was also stationed at Timehri.
“They were shocked,” the resident said. “I showed them where he had broken into the house.” The detective was transported to the Timehri Police Station where he was placed in custody.
A Division Commander Clifton Hicken confirmed that the detective was in custody after being nabbed in a house.
The Commander said police will be seeking legal advice today in an effort to have the rank placed before the courts.
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Taxi driver, accomplices break into 17 vehicles on E.C.D.
Jan 09, 2017 News 0 Comments
– nabbed and beaten by villagers; batteries and other spares recovered
Residents at Mahaica and Mahaicony may now be able to sleep soundly, after capturing a taxi driver and two men who had broken into and stolen articles from at least 17 vehicles during a three-day spree.
The culprits were nabbed on Friday while attempting to break into yet another vehicle at Mahaicony. A source said that they were “tied up like monkeys” and given a sound thrashing before being handed over to the police.
Police recovered several tape decks, a tractor alternator, eight batteries and other valuables. Vehicle owners have turned up to claim some of the items.
Sources gave the ages of the suspects as 37, 27 and 24. The taxi driver resides in Georgetown, while his accomplices are reportedly from Sophia.
Police believe that the trio’s spree began last Wednesday, when police began receiving reports from Mahaicony and Mahaica, of spares and items being stolen from mini-buses, cars and even a tractor.
It is believed that the gang used the recent heavy rainfall to their advantage.
But their luck ran during the early hours of Friday, when a Mahaicony resident looked outside and saw the men attempting to break into his vehicle, which was parked on a roadway.
The man raised an alarm and several residents responded and caught the suspects. They were tied and beaten, before being handed over to the police.
The men are scheduled to appear in court today.
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Estate worker fatally stabbed after altercation
Jan 10, 2017 News 0 Comments
– police seek three suspects
A 39-year-old Uitvlugt Estate worker was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital last
Dead: Kawal Shivnauth called Rupesh or Rupee
evening after he was found near an Anna Catherina shop with suspected stab wounds about his body.
The victim has been identified as Kawal Shivnauth called Rupesh or Rupee, and also resides in that area, West Coast Demerara.
One of the man’s relatives, told Kaieteur News that Shivnauth had an altercation with three men, and as he was about to exit the establishment, he was reportedly lashed behind his head while another man pounced on him and began to stab him repeatedly.
Residents raised an alarm and the police were alerted.
It was reported that Shivnauth was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital, where scores of relatives and friends were present demanding answers from the police ranks that were present.
Meanwhile, a police source told this publication that with the aid of a villager, they were seeking three suspects who also reside in the area. Up to press time, their efforts were futile.
Relatives have described Shivnauth as an “easy” and “peaceful” man. He is survived by his three daughters aged fifteen, six and five.
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Conflicting reports on shooting at night club
Jan 10, 2017 News 0 Comments
As management of Club Privilege at the Tower Hotel on Main Street, Georgetown,
Cops cordoned off the exterior of the club yesterday.
continues to deny that there was a shooting there last Sunday morning which resulted in two persons being hospitalized, the police have maintained that they are indeed investigating such an incident.
The injured persons were reportedly rushed to the Balwant Singh Hospital where they are said to be in a stable condition.
Yesterday, crime scene investigators visited the scene to take statements and according to one police source, there were “bullet holes” in the walls of the club. Reports are that spent shells were also seen.
The ranks were at the club up until 18:00 hrs and they had cordoned off the area.
According to information received, there was an argument between two persons in the club which resulted in one of them pulling out a gun and opening fire, causing persons inside the club to run for their lives.
Yesterday, when this newspaper contacted a staffer from the club, he became defensive when he was asked about the shooting, and categorically denied that such an incident took place.
“Alyuh saying there was a shooting and there was never a shooting,” the staffer said before ending the call.
However, police sources said that they became aware of the incident when one of the victims contacted the police and gave a statement.
While no one has been arrested, the police source said that they believe they have enough information on the alleged shooter, and are trying to get to him.
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Constable chopped by irate vendor
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A Constable attached to the City Constabulary was admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital, nursing a wound to his head after he was chopped by an irate vendor along Water Street, Georgetown.
Injured is 38-year-old Satish Boodhoo.
Based on reports received, the vendor reportedly stepped on Boodhoo’s feet and the Constable demanded an apology, but the vendor became abusive.
The vendor continued to verbally abuse the Constable, who cautioned that if he continued, he could be arrested and charged. By this time, other vendors flocked the Constable and a heated argument ensued as they attempted to defend their colleague.
However, the argument continued and as Boodhoo attempted to arrest the vendor, he whipped out a sharp object and dealt him one blow to the head. The Constable fell unconscious to the roadway.
His colleagues, also on foot patrol, rushed to his assistance and arrived just in time as the irate vendor was attempting to disarm him. Upon their arrival, the suspect fled the scene. The injured Constable was picked up and taken to the Hospital where he was admitted.
Guyana Times understands that the now injured Constable and three of his colleagues were on patrol in the area. The other Constables were reportedly a short distance away when Boodhoo was attacked and injured, and upon hearing the commotion, they turned around and responded before the matter could have gotten worse. The incident was reported to the Police and an investigation has been launched.
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PNC supporters feeling the squeeze as they resort to robbing each other to feed themselves under this jackass Granger administration.
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A MOTHER of four was robbed of her mobile phone by another woman, who claimed that her husband had sent her to steal, so as to provide for their newborn.
Melinda Forde, aged 29 years had left her Lot 115, Essex Street home, in New Amsterdam, just before 20:00hrs, on Monday evening to purchase a Chinese sausage fried rice. She had in her possession a Smart phone, which was a gift from her mother.
After making the purchase, she was returning home when in a narrow unlit passageway a few feet from her home, a woman pounced on her. The attacker had emerged from under the stairs of a building which shared the same unfenced yard space as Forde’s home.
Although the attack was sudden, the victim managed to hold on to the thief who had grabbed her mobile device. They struggled on to the road, where an alarm was raised and neighbours responded. But, the suspect, escaped, fleeing into an alleyway along Main and King Streets, before hiding amongst trucks within the precinct of the Guyana Power and Light Company on Strand Road. She was however later arrested and handed over to the police. A search on her person revealed the phone in her underwear.
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Even the lowly fruit vendor is not immune from robbery of Granger's angels.
Bandits nabbed after attack on fruit vendor
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TWO of three suspected bandits were on Tuesday afternoon apprehended by police following the execution of a daring robbery at a popular fruit and vegetable stand on North Road, Boarda.
According to the proprietor Chaterpaul Bharrat, at about 17:30hrs, he received a call that his business, ‘Bharrat’s fresh vegetables’ was being robbed. He was at the Harbour Bridge at the time.
He said that once he arrived at the fruit stand, which is located on North Road, he learnt that two men approached the stand and told a female worker to take off her valuables. One of the men reportedly had a gun in his possession. Bharrat said that they then approached his wife, Daveeka Seenarine and attempted to “bust off” her apron which had money, but a Brazilian customer who was there questioned “why would y’all want to do that?”
He revealed that the two men then turned their attention to the customer and relieved him (the customer) of two gold rings and $100,000 in cash. Hurriedly, they then left on foot, heading east of North Street, where another suspected accomplice was waiting with motorcycle CG 8631.
The proprietor said though, that the customer, who is a license firearm holder chased the men, but stumble and fell, which allowed for two of them to escape.
“He [the customer] get up and run one who run around to Regent Street and back and was eventually caught” Bharrat said, adding that by this time, he had arrived at the business.
A few seconds later, he said Police were able to apprehend a second suspect on Robb Street and the two were taken to Alberttown Police Station.
“The Police did a very good job because in no time they catch the second person. And they weren’t patrolling, somebody call them. So they reacted fast” a seemingly composed Bharrat said.
He said that when the two men were taken to the Police Station, the apron his wife was wearing was recovered but not the articles stolen from the customers.
He believes that these may have been handed to the third suspect who escaped. He was unable to say how much money was in his wife’s apron.
“They does target this area steady cause for last month alone we get rob three times. It was not a lot of money but the amount of times was a lot” he said, adding that he has always been supportive of the police and their work and he is thankful for their intervention on Tuesday.
Up to press time, the witnesses were giving statements at the Police Station, while the two suspects had been handcuffed and escorted to a cell. They are expected to appear before the court shortly.
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Endless drug runnings under the PNC administration. They catch a few low level dealers and let the big boys play free.
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Police ranks acting on information received, conducted several raids in the Broad Street, Charlestown Neighborhood on Monday for illegal drugs and firearms.
During the exercise, which commenced at 16:30h and concluded at 17:45h, in excess of 10.3 kilograms of cannabis were found at separate locations. A female has been taken into custody and is assisting with the investigation.
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As a result of PNC police not doing their jobs, citizens are being killed by their harassers. Time and time again I hear people reporting harassment to the police and they chase them away without even filing a report or investigating. As a result the bullies are free to maim and kill as they know that the police are on the side of the criminals and jackass Granger will free them come Christmas.
Estate worker allegedly killed for telling stepson not to harass daughter
Jan 11, 2017 News 0 Comments
When 38-year-old Kawal Shivnauth approached his stepson and instructed that he stop harassing his
Dead: Kawal Shivnauth called Rupesh or Rupee
15-year-old daughter, the young man got upset and felt embarrassed. So, when he (stepson) saw the Uitvlugt estate worker at a shop in Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, on Monday night, he decided to vent his anger on the father of three.
With the help of his two friends, the young man started an argument with Shivnauth and then struck him to the back of his head with a bottle. The trio then ran out of the shop behind their victim and beat him. One of the three suspects then stabbed him twice to the abdomen after which they escaped.
This is the story the victim’s stepson reportedly told the cops at the Leonora Police Station when he was arrested yesterday morning at the Anna Catherina seawall.
A second suspect was apprehended at Matthews Ridge, Region one, as the police hunt for a third person.
The victim’s mother, Radha Lalchand said that her son indeed spoke to his stepson sometime back about harassing his daughter.
“It wasn’t anything big, he (victim) just talked to him about troubling the girl,” Lalchand said.
The woman said that her son was dating the suspect’s mother for about three years. “The woman doesn’t live with him (victim) but she goes there and spend time with him.”
Lalchan said that her grandchildren reside with her and on Sunday, last, he called and asked that she send the children over so that they could have spent the day by him since it was his birthday—that was the last time the woman heard from her son.
Meanwhile, at the scene, one of the victim’s relatives said that Shivnauth had an altercation with three men, and as he was about to exit the establishment, he was reportedly hit behind his head while another man pounced on him and began to stab him repeatedly.
Residents raised an alarm and the police were alerted.
Shivnauth was pronounced dead on arrival at the Leonora Cottage Hospital.
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Mother critical after stabbed by daughter’s lover
Jan 12, 2017 News 0 Comments
Police in ‘B’ Division are investigating a recent incident which has left a female security guard in critical condition after she was stabbed several times, reportedly by her daughter’s boyfriend, on Tuesday.
Forty-three year-old Nivonne Aubrey Trim of No. 77 Housing Scheme, Corriverton Berbice who is employed as a security guard is currently at the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
According to reports reaching Kaieteur News, the injured woman was acting as a peacemaker between her 21-year-old daughter, Felicia Burnette and her 48-year-old boyfriend, when she was stabbed several times to her breast and hand.
It was revealed that at about 19:30 hours on Tuesday, the suspect was imbibing with friends at his home when a quarrel ensued between him and his girlfriend. Trim was contacted by her daughter to intervene in the dispute and upon arriving, she was attacked by the suspect who brandished a knife.
The woman received stab wounds to her breast and chops about her body before eyewitnesses managed to disarm the suspect who was subsequently arrested. Charges are likely to be laid soon.
The injured peacemaker was rushed to the Skeldon Public Hospital and was later transferred to the New Amsterdam Hospital where her condition was listed as critical.
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Bandits invade newly-opened supermarket at Belvedere
Jan 12, 2017 News 0 Comments
Just a few weeks after opening their new business to the public, a young Chinese couple,
The business place at Belvedere, East Berbice.
owners of the ‘Good Life Supermarket’ located along the Belvedere Public Road, Corentyne, was on Wednesday evening left traumatized after two armed bandits invaded the premises.
The ordeal which began at approximately 19:30 hrs, and lasted approximately fifteen minutes, was all caught on surveillance cameras. The footage showed the men arriving on a motorcycle, one armed with a cutlass and the other with a shotgun.
The perpetrators were seen barging into the supermarket and ordering the couple to lie on the ground, along with three customers who were still inside. The male proprietor seemed a bit reluctant to follow the men’s orders and as a result received a gun butt to the shoulder that took him down.
The owner’s wife exited from the cashier’s area to save her husband from being further hit, but as she hovered over the man she was kicked to her left side by one of the armed men.
The men, whose faces were covered – one with a handkerchief and the other with a hoodie –
The couple contemplating their next move.
continued to beat the couple with the cutlass.
One of the perpetrators left the area where the owners were being held and ventured to another part of the building. He reportedly ran upstairs and ransacked the upper flat – the living quarters – while the other bandit stood guard.
After about five minutes the man, armed with a cutlass, returned as the other demanded that they empty the cash register. They both escaped on the motorcycle after taking cash and valuables. Each man had a haversack and wore dark-coloured clothing.
The owners and customers in the supermarket were seen scrambling to exit the building after the men reportedly escaped with keys to the automated garage doors, and had tried to lock the customers and owners inside the building.
Meanwhile, Divisional Commander Ian Amsterdam confirmed that the men escaped with approximately $500,000 in cash, one iPhone 6 and some other valuables. He stated that four persons are in custody for questioning in relation to the robbery. According to a police source, one of the four suspects is being looked at closely. The source also disclosed the men were reportedly staking out the business and waiting for the perfect opportunity to pounce on the couple.
Investigations are continuing.
Masked bandits rob Berbice supermarket
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Two armed bandits who beat and robbed the owners of a Corentyne, Berbice supermarket on Tuesday night were caught on camera carrying out the robbery.
Reports are about 20:30h, two masked men entered “Good Life” Supermarket situated at Belvedere Village, Corentyne.
This newspaper was told that one of the men was wearing a hooded shirt, with a handkerchief on his face and the other wore a helmet with a handkerchief around his face to conceal his identity.
At the time of the robbery, three Chinese nationals, who operate the supermarket, were on the premises. Four customers were also in the supermarket when the bandits entered.
Once inside, the men ensured that the door was locked and then proceeded to strike the owners with gun butts and cutlasses.
The four customers were not spared. This publication was told that the gunmen escaped with a customer’s cellular phone, more than $100,000 from the cash register along with $300,000, which was stashed away.
The men spent close to 10 minutes in the building. Following the robbery, the men escaped on a motorcycle. After the gunmen left, the victims raised an alarm.
Meanwhile, Guyana Times understands that at the time of the robbery, traffic ranks were next door making a purchase. However, the ranks were unable to help the victims, although they managed to contact their counterparts on mobile patrol.
B (Berbice) Division Commander, Assistant Commissioner Ian Amsterdam told this publication that several persons have been arrested as the Police follow leads. Investigations are continuing. (Andrew Carmichael)
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