Corentyne woman robbed at gunpoint in home

A 44-year-old woman of Brighton Village, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) is traumatised after being robbed at gunpoint in her home on Monday evening. The bandit invaded the house while her children were present, carting off cash before escaping.

Swarthwati Seecharran was at home with her children when two gunmen, one masked and both carrying what appeared to be handguns, confronted her in the kitchen. The attacks left her shocked. She hardly had time to comprehend what was taking place.
The Rose Hall Town market vendor, speaking with this publication, recalled that it was about 18:00h when she heard someone talking in the yard. Her 18-year-old son went to investigate. She said she hear a voice and when she turned around, she saw two men who both entered the home.
“And the one with the mask run to my son… And the one without the mask got to me in the kitchen,” she recalled. Still shaken, the woman related that the gunmen forced her to turn off the light and threatened her while simultaneously demanding cash and other valuables. Afraid for her life and the safety of her children, she complied as he held a gun to her back.
“[The intruder] said, ‘Where’s the money that what you get’? So I said, I have a little bit of money. And the money is inside the room, in my bag, on the barrel. And he said, ‘Show me where the money is’.
He put the gun on my back and let me walk and go in the room. And he take out my black bag and my money went in the apron… Then he said, ‘Where’s the rest of the money’? And I said, ‘We don’t get more money. That’s all we get. And he said, ‘We know you as business people…,” she said, adding that the gun was still being held to her side.
The vendor said she pleaded with the bandits not to hurt her children.
“I begged them and tell them that my two children is disabled children, let them don’t do them nothing…”
According to the woman, the bandit carted off approximately $700,000, including sales money and cash for household expenses.
I had a bag that get $385,000 inside. The money was to pay two different instalments and ah take it out and we give them, and we tell them, that’s all, we didn’t get more money. That is all we have. In all is close to $700,000 because I had from what I sell Saturday too all in my apron.”
The perpetrators reportedly escaped through the back door after inquiring from her son if there was any other way out other that the front door when they entered from.
They left and broke the back fence and made their way into the backlands.
Seecharran says that her children remain shaken by the ordeal and is calling for swift police action.
Residents of the area say robberies have become too frequent and are urging stronger patrols along the Corentyne Coast.