A minibus conductor was shot and injured by a “passenger” during a robbery yesterday afternoon.
The injured man is 36-year-old Lalbachan Gobin of Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara.
Lalbachan Gobin
According to reports, Gobin was the conductor of a minibus plying the Parika/ Georgetown route. The suspect, a passenger in the minibus, asked to get off as the bus approached the Flour Mill road in Eccles.
The passenger reportedly paid Gobin with a $1,000 note, and while the conductor was making change, the suspect grabbed all of the money from the conductor’s hands. Gobin retaliated and the man pulled out a firearm and shot the conductor in his abdomen before escaping.
It is believed that the suspect only escaped with $1,000.
Gobin was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital where he was forced to undergo emergency surgery.
Up to press time the man was in the theatre undergoing surgery.
we need some undercover police at the bus park and riding on some of these buses, thats just my thinking as an ordinary citizen. Can’t somebody in the police department come up with some sort of a plan to combat this new wave of robberies on mini buses, come on!
how the police will know which bus to ride on and who the robbers are the don’t carry a sigh say”i am a thief”. So u want the police to just sit and ride on buses all day and nite? you ppl give me jokes.
you looking for more trouble. say what ? police on the bus.
I think that may be a good idea if the GPF wasn’t so short staffed already. A rotation of plain-clothes police who get into random buses on assigned routes. This may help to deter some crime on and off the buses as the criminals will not know who is in which bus. They just might think twice before commiting the crime.
My God people of today nah
It appears that public transport is not safe for anyone these days.
People in buses are being robbed on that volatile stretch of road for too long and the police seems oblivious. At least pretend that you are doing something and maybe these miscreants will stop their depredations. Like gt_hopeful said, have plain clothe police go ramdomly in bosses and have uniformed police take desultory rides also. This must stop and it must stop now.
Hope there was enough witnesses to ID the bastard.
Seems like everybody carrying a gun now .
Animals like that should not be tried when caught , just throw them in jail and throw away the key !
These conductors should start putting away their cash when it starts to get bulky in their pockets , only keep a small portion on them for change.
Or deputize those touts & make them ride the busses.
A suggestion, the mini buses need to install a drop box where the driver and conductor has no key. The driver and conductor should only have enough money to dispense change up to a certain amount, this MIGHT help to prevent this lawlessness.
These bastard are easy pray for the foolice, seems like the foolice are more scare than me/you u don’t need a gun to capture these fools just associate dress like anything, Mr commissioner bring some foolice from berbice and other county put them in these areas to associate among these fools cus those u have in georgetown makes them selves noticed, think Mr Promoted foolice commissioner…….peace out
DID NO ONE SEE THIS PERSON WHO BOLDLY ROB AND SHOT THIS CONDUCTOR. PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A HOT LINE NUMBER WHICH THE POLICE SHOULD SETT UP WHERE THEY CAN CALL TO MAKE ANONYMOUS COMPLAINTS. I HOPE LALBACHAN FEELS BETTER SOON AND JUSTICE BE SERVED.
Well love_gt you make me laugh, you have a point how will the police know which bus to go on, they have to be a fortune teller
The governments of the Caribbean must put their heads together and come up with a practicable plan to reduce the criminal activities which are destroying our societies . the police must also gain the confidence of the law-abiding citizens and corrupt policemen/women must be removed from the police forces/departments and where possible , charged and taken before the courts . Let justice be done , though the heavens may fall .