‘Customer’ robs vendor of gold chain

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A single mother of five was yesterday robbed of a gold chain valued $120,000 by a man who posed as a customer at her snackette at Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice.

Kamla Swhenand, 38, who also sells fruits, was at the snackette with her nine-year-old daughter when a man rode up on a motorcycle, C 4752, and asked to purchase bananas.

She recalled that she was about to sell him when he …..


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