Businessman charged with million-dollar gunpoint robbery

A businessman was yesterday placed on $400,000 bail for robbery under arms when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Kevin Nelson, 26,  was not required to plead to the offence when it was read to him. It is alleged that on December 21, 2011, at Meadow Bank, East Bank Demerara, Nelson while being armed with a gun