Gunmen rob, beat city businessman

City businessman Godfrey Scipio called ‘Saga’ was on Friday night robbed of jewellery and an undisclosed amount of cash by four gunmen who later engaged police in a shoot-out at Cummings Lodge. The police arrested the driver of their vehicle, in which weapons and ammunition were found.

Police in a press release yesterday said that at about 2130 hours they responded to an armed robbery in D’Urban Street, Georgetown, during which a man was arrested, a motor vehicle detained, and two firearms along with ammunition and spent shells recovered.

Investigations revealed that the 58-year-old businessman of D’Urban Street, Georgetown, had just parked his motor vehicle in front of his residence when four men drove up alongside in a white Toyota Raum motor car PMM 6292. One of the men, all of whom were