Thieves escape with over $1M in cash, jewellery from teacher’s home

Thieves broke into an East Canje Berbice (East Berbice-Corentyne) home on Tuesday and stole in excess of $1 million in cash, jewellery, and other valuables.
Shaleeza Ramcharan, a teacher at Viola Nursery in New Amsterdam, discovered signs of a break-in at her East Canje home on Tuesday afternoon. Arriving at her Lot 80 Canefield Settlement residence around 14:45h, Ramcharan said she noticed that the front door appeared tampered with. She immediately called her husband to inform him of the unusual condition before entering the house.
“I went in, and everything was ransacked from downstairs. I went upstairs; it was ransacked,” Ramcharan explained.

The teacher, who also operates a part-time business selling Mobile Money Guyana (MMG), offering photocopying services and selling stationery, said her business cash was gone.
“I had MMG money. I had money to carry around the house, like over $500,000 in cash. I had my kids’ jewellery, my jewellery, and my husband’s jewellery… They took all his brand-name boots, all our brand-name cologne and perfumes. Some of my husband had, like, five bottles of brand-name rum.”
The 35-year-old teacher further disclosed that the intruders carted off about $400,000 worth of jewellery.
“They took all the gold jewellery and left the artificial jewellery,” Ramcharan added.
According to the teacher, she left home at about 07:30h when she left home, and no one was at home during the period she was at school.
The mother of two told this publication that she is hoping that law enforcement will be able to catch the perpetrators.
“I am quite shaken up, I am hurt, I am sad; lots of emotions. I worked so hard for my things, and then somebody just came and took them all. I want the police to do a proper investigation, and I could get back my stuff,” the teacher said.