A Corentyne, Berbice businesswoman was robbed of over $300,000 cash and a quantity of jewellery, and her 71-year-old mother assaulted, by two armed men on Saturday.

According to a police press release, at approximately 8.20 pm that day two men armed with a handgun and knife robbed the Lot 45 Scottsburg Housing Scheme, Corentyne family of $330,000 of cash and a quantity of jewellery.

Zalima Jamaludeen, 36, was in the upper flat of her two-storey home with her mother, Ramdeo Lotan, watching television with a door open.

The suspects climbed into the home and held up the occupants demanding money and jewellery, the release said.

One of the men, the release further stated, stood guard while the other ordered Jamaludeen into a bedroom where she handed over the cash and jewellery. The men assaulted the woman’s mother before escaping.