…escape with cash, jewellery
A Berbice family of three is now traumatised and left counting their losses after three bandits – two armed with cutlasses and one with a gun – invaded their home and robbed them of cash and gold jewellery.
Reports are that at about 19:30h, 25-year-old Sohanram Ramotar along with his wife were sitting underneath their house at Zorg-en-Hoop, Blairmont, West Coast Berbice, when the bandits scaled their fence and entered the yard.
The couple’s son was in the house when he noticed his parents entering the house with the suspects through the back door which was left half open.
The bandit with the gun pointed it at the young man’s face and ordered him to hand over the family’s cash and jewellery. This newspaper was told that the other two bandits then began to ransack the home in search of loot. The family handed over a quantity of gold jewellery along with $20,000.
When contacted, Regional Commander of Region Five, Superintendent Yonette Stephens stated that no one has been arrested but an investigation has been launched.
