– grabs cash, wounds Guyanese proprietress

A Guyanese man was shot and killed at a restaurant and bar in Barbados on Saturday night and a woman injured following an attack by a lone gunman who carted off an undisclosed amount of cash.

Dead is Christopher Anthony Griffith of Redman Village, St Thomas. Silochani Samuels, also a Guyanese and of Redman Village, St Thomas, was shot in the arm and is currently in a serious but stable condition in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

A police release provided to this newspaper by Nation News in Barbados said a man with his face covered and armed with a firearm entered the Hippo Bar and Caribbean Restaurant on Lower Bay Street, St Michael some time around 7 pm on Saturday and robbed the cashier of an undisclosed sum of money.

”During the robbery the assailant also discharged a number of shots wounding the proprietress, Guyanese national, Silochani Samuels who resides at Redman Village, St Thomas, in the area of her right arm, and Christopher Anthony Griffith, another Guyanese national who also resided at Redman Village, St Thomas in his head,” the release said.

Griffith was later pronounced dead at the scene while Samuels was taken to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital where she is hospitalized, the release said, adding that Griffith’s death was being treated as “unnatural”. The bar has since been closed.

Police investigations are continuing.

Information reaching the Stabroek News is that the two have been residing and working in Barbados for a number of years.