A Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara businesswoman is calling for daily police patrols in the community after she and her 81-year-old mother were victims of a brazen daylight robbery.
Sherry Narine, 54, and her mother, Sumitra Deonarine, were robbed early Tuesday morning as they were having breakfast at their 865 Block-Y Section C, Golden Grove home. Police have since arrested one person and he is being processed for court. “I wish if police can conduct regular patrol and if the NDC [Neighbourhood Democratic Council] can put lights in through the streets. We try to secure our place but it is not enough… we need the police to come around more often. A lot of wrong things are going on in this place,” she opined.
The mother and daughter were robbed of $100,000 in cash as well as two gold rings.
Narine yesterday recounted to Stabroek News that on Tuesday morning, around 8.30, she and her mother were having breakfast when three men entered the yard and requested drinks.
The woman explained that she does not have a shop but she would sell drinks and grocery items. She explained as she went into the house to collect the drinks, one of the men followed her and the other two later escorted her mother inside her one-flat home.
Still visibly shaken by the ordeal, Narine went on to say that the men threatened to kill them if they screamed before ordering her to hand over her valuables.
She added that the men harassed her mother as they escorted her into the house, while she was beaten. She stated that the men gun-butted her, resulting in an injury to her head.
This newspaper was told that the woman bled profusely after suffering the injury.
The ordeal, Narine said, lasted for approximately five minutes, after which the men, who were unmasked, fled the scene. She said after she washed off the blood from her skin, she contacted the police, who arrived and took them to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre for medical treatment. Narine related further that this is not the first time she was robbed and she recounted that two years ago a gang of men stormed into her house and carted off millions. At that time, she was not at home and the men attacked one of her sons and an uncle who were there. She said the men ransacked the home and carted off phone cards, a laptop, cellular phones, and cash. However, she noted that she never got justice for the robbery as she gave up hope because of the back and forth in the court proceedings.
Asked if she feels as if she would get any justice this time around, Narine responded with uncertainty. “Like right now, I don’t know what would happen… because you don’t get any justice in this place,” she said, before adding, “these men think you work to give them when they come… and when they go jail, you don’t get back anything you still have to struggle for your bread but they are in there and they have three square meals every day we are out here and we have to work hard for what we want.”
Narine, who is still traumatised, went on to say, “I don’t feel safe in my house anymore… I don’t trouble anyone, I don’t understand why they come for what I have.”
