Both the management of the Massy Stores Supermarket at Providence and the police have denied a recent claim by the United States Embassy of an increase in robberies in the supermarket’s parking lot.
In an advisory issued over a week ago, the Embassy warned its citizens here that it has received multiple reports of late night robberies occurring in the parking lot. It had further stated that both the management of the supermarket and the police force had confirmed increased criminal activity since July, with attacks mostly occurring after 8 pm.
However, when contacted by this newspaper, Commander of ‘A’ Division Marlon Chapman confirmed that the police had received reports of robberies in the parking lot earlier this year, but not lately. “…Any other occurrences than those reports, maybe it wasn’t reported,” he said.