In the wake of frequent armed robberies committed on persons plying the routes between the boundaries of New Market and Quamina and Waterloo and Carmichael streets, the Guyana Police Force will now have police present in these areas.
“The robberies seem to be committed by three young men who are sometimes on foot, bicycles and lately they have moved up to a white Toyota car,” a security officer at the Republic Bank told Stabroek News yesterday. “The target is our workers at the bank who choose to walk that route; persons going to the gardens or coming from computer classes nearby.”
The man informed that only recently a co-worker of his was beaten after he raised an alarm when he saw a young woman being robbed of her