A Linden businesswoman is counting her losses while singing praises that her life was spared, after she was held at gunpoint yesterday morning and robbed of a quantity of cash and jewellery.
Lavern Griffith, also known as ‘Lovie,’ operates the eating house along Co-op Crescent known to most residents as “Chicken cook shop.” It was shortly after 9, as the Griffith was about to step out of her shop, when she was held at gunpoint by two men.
“Two guns to my head, you could imagine that, two guns,” she recalled. “These two men just step up on me and seh ‘geh meh all wah yuh ga.’” With that, one of the men pulled off two gold chains she was wearing. One then entered her pocket, pulling out approximately $100,000 cash she had on her, before making good their escape.
The two bandits, believed to be in their late teens or early twenties, were unmasked; they wore caps pulled down over their faces. The men ran