Berbice man robbed, beaten with cutlass

A self-employed man was attacked and robbed of ,000 by three bandits on Sunday as he was making rounds in Kilcoy, Chesney, in Region 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne) to collect money from his debtors.
Mohamed Budhram, 56, of No 19 Village, Corentyne, is a furniture maker and would collect money owed to him on a weekly basis. As such, at approximately 14:05h on Sunday, while in Kilcoy, he stopped to purchase “a snow cone from the shave ice man.”
While doing so, Budhram said that he was approached by a man from behind, who proceeded to push his hands into his pockets.
According to Budhram, he knows the man as “David” from Kokerdam, Berbice, and he initially thought the man was joking. Additionally, Budhram recalled that the same man had asked him to “make a bed for him” some time ago.
Budhram relayed that after feeling the hands in his pockets, he turned around and jokingly told “David”, “wha, you want a raise or wa?”
“David” responded by collecting a cutlass from one of his accomplices and dealing him several lashes across his body. “David” was then “towed” away by another accomplice on a bicycle, Budhram added.
The police were contacted and have launched a search for “David.”