Two persons have been arrested in connection with the Gay Park, Greater New Amsterdam robbery on Monday evening which left 34-year-old Mohanie Latiff nursing gunshot and chop wounds at the NA Hospital.
Mohanie Latiff
Police combed the backlands the same evening after receiving reports that the bandits had escaped in that direction and managed to nab the two. They are also looking for two other persons.
When this newspaper spoke to Mohanie Latiff at the hospital yesterday close relatives and friends had gathered and were helping to feed her. Her husband, Harold said that six pellets had been lodged in each of her thighs.
She was also chopped on her left hand, the palm of her right hand and shoulder while “brands” from the cutlass were imprinted on her face, back and about her body. Harold said her condition seemed to be improving.
He said the bandits took away a large quantity of gold jewellery valued more than $500,000 and a small amount of cash. The entire house was ransacked and left in a mess with blood splattered all over.
The man who works on a cargo ship, told this newspaper that he was about to leave the airport to go home when he got a call about what transpired.
Speaking in a faint tone, Latiff told this newspaper she was feeling better although the terrible ordeal she went through was still haunting her.
Recalling the events of the horrible night, the woman said from the time the bandits entered the house they started to beat her severely about her body with the cutlass.
They then stripped her of the jewellery she was wearing and proceeded to chop her while dragging her around the house, demanding that she hand over all the money and jewellery. She barred with her hands as they swung the cutlasses at her.
With blood oozing from her wounds which left traces all around the house, the woman led the bandits to where the money and jewellery were kept.
However they were not satisfied and fired the shots at her, forcing her to “find” more… They then escaped in the direction of the backlands with their booty, including two cell phones.
Latiff was cooking at the time when the men barged in and started attacking her. Before that her 15-year-old son, Andy who was rocking his one-year-old sister in a hammock on the porch saw four of the bandits rushing into the yard with cutlasses. He said he immediately grabbed his sister and ran off the porch.
Speaking to this newspaper last evening, the traumatized lad said he did not realize another bandit had a gun until he started firing shots in his direction.
He nevertheless kept on running while ‘ducking’ from the bullets which missed him and his sister narrowly.
From his hiding place in the yard he heard the loud sounds of the cutlasses as the bandits were terrorizing his mother who was screaming hysterically.
After the bandits left, neighbours who heard the gunshots and hid in their homes, terrified, ran to Latiff’s assistance and rushed her to the hospital where she underwent emergency surgery.
The Berbice police can be trusted to get the job done,they will get the other two as well,good on them!!
This was NOT a random act,,,,….The attackers knew what they were doing, this is NOT a robbery.
People are not safe in this world anymore as long as people like these… lurkes on innocent people! Shame.
this is horrible.i hope these guys get jailed for a long time.
Latiff told SN that the terrible ordeal she went through was still haunting her, little does she know that for the rest of her life she will suffer flashbacks of the carnage inflicted on her.
A housewife cooking a meal for her husband returning home is now sentenced to a lifetime of terror.
What kind of callous behaviour would cause FOUR MEN to shoot a woman with a shotgun, chop her hands with cutlass while attempting to destroy her face and drag her around her house with blood oozing from her wounds?
No doubt blogger Hackett and the Human Rights ‘Do Nothings’ will press for a prison sentence for the criminals with likelihood of parole, however I have to wonder if they would be so pacifistic if it was THEIR WIFE who was brutalised.
There is a clear case of meting out physical punishment proportional to the punishment inflicted by the criminal.
The ‘Do Nothings’ may brand this inhuman but there is nevertheless something JUST and LOGICAL in meting out physical punishment proportional to the punishment inflicted by the criminal.
As it is, the excellent work of the Police finding two of the criminals who were hiding in the backlands may come to nought with a protracted trial and a prison sentence which is rarely a deterrent.
Condolences to the Latiff family. God help you.
I wish her a speedy recovery.
Are we noticing that almost 99% of the times these scumbags are getting caught in berbice, my hat is off to the Policemen/women
in that region for doing such an impressive job, teach the foolice in Georgetown how to do their jobs honestly and correctly. I do hope that they catch the other two as soon as possible and make sure all of them get 25 years in prison with hard labour. All the inmates needs to be shackled and be put to work on the streets to help in making Guyana a beautiful place again. I have noooooooooo sympathy what-so-ever for criminals.
In a case like this I would suggest that if and when these men are found guilty, they be sentenced to death by whatever means necessary. How long will it take for this administration to take a stand against such brutality and how long will the guyanese people sit on their apathy and not take to the streets to protest what is taking place down there ? I say, bring back the cat-o-nine tails and the hang man .. hang em high !! Only then will we see a change in the anarchy that is taking place down there .. enuf already !!
Is the name of that place correct ? Gay Park, what is Guyana coming to now?
NOT THE GAY U R THINKING ABOUT CHEMIST. IT MEANS ‘HAPPY PARK’ BUT I GUESS ITS NOT A HAPPY PARK ANYMORE.
Yes it is called GAY PARK………… “GAY” as in happy. I lived there with many other respected citizens, before we left Guyana. It is a beautiful place to be, minus the bandits of course.
That has been the name for the longest while now. The word gay means happy. You’re a chemist but no linguist.
Stop your nonsense.
An arrest does not mean they will be charged. Many arrests are made to pursue further investigation but if the information gathered is insufficient for a conviction the arrested are released.
BORAPORK, EVEN IF THEY ARE CHARGED DOESNT MEAN THEY WILL BE FOUND GUILTY… U KNOW WHAT I MEAN… THEY WILL BE FREED BY THE MORANS THAT WE HAVE FOR DEFENSE ATTORNEY & JUDGES.
Folks I ask again what is the PPP doing to protect the citizens of this country from crime? can someone tell me?
How much longer are our people going to suffer like this?
CACK EYE SAMAROO KAA KAA:::
YOU TELL DE PEOPLE HERE HOW COULD DE PEE PEE PEE HAVE STOPPED THIS FROM HAPPENING….NO WONDER YUH EYE SO CAKED LIKE CACK EYE PEPIE AND CACK EYE TURBO…TELL WE HOW…SHOULD THE PEE PEE PEE PUT POLICE IN EVERY YARD IN EVERY STREET IN EVERY BODY HOUSE???????
i have said it umpteen time ,, “rohee muss rezine” ! but not enuff voices to mek de sound loudah ,, suh ‘e still iz de “house maninjah” hoo en gat a clue ! but dat aside ah gat fuh aks yuh dis ,,,,,
weh yuh bin wen dem wah de kickin down de door an mo???????????
did yuh eva write an aks mr burnham ,,, how come de pnc kyant protek de ppl dem ??????????????????????????????????????
if yuh did den ah sarri ah aks ! ah en know but ah gat dis feelin dat yuh rantin an ravin ,, caz yuh deh far an safe !
nutting like u ,, cudah run yuh mouth like yuh doin hay if burnham was alive ,, as fuh green yuh lucky ‘e get ole like bull wah duz……welll yuh know wah bull duz duh wen ‘e get ole !
I will tell you how the PPP could have prevented this.
If the PPP had spent the 700 million dollars they are spending on chronicle, NCN and all the other BS propaganda tools of Burnhame on upgrading our police force with the best communication tools, technology, salaries and also improved the diversity of the force we would have a professional service that criminals would fear and it would be a deterent.
Instead what do we have? we have rohee haww running one of the largest ministries the government has with one of the largest workforces.
We have a police commissioner who cannot even get a visa to go to the UNited states please sir tell me why this is the case? the minister responsible for this department also cannot get a visa to go to the united states.
When the British offers help lunchbox cuss dem out.
Dat is the culture of your hideous govenrment cack eye.
Thank you Stabroek News!! My family and I searched all day yesterday for an update to this sad news. I must say that I am a bit relieved that Mohanie is doing okay. We sat around yesterday only fearing the worst.
We are also very happy to read about the capture of two of the bandits. This madness has got to stop. I don’t know what might work. I just remember the police response time to be really lame. They were always looking for a little hook up with money before they got off their chairs and did something for the citizens of Guyana.
Mohanie and family, my prayers are with you for a quick recovery. I know the trauma of this will probably last a long time. Just know that you are thought of with love and fond memories.
Devi (Lot 17 Gay Park)