Two men last night robbed Pearl’s Bakery and Snackette on D’Urban Street of an undisclosed sum of cash at around 7.50 pm and put a bullet hole in the glass door as they departed on a motorcycle.
Relating the incident to Stabroek News, a guard attached to the business said that one of the men came in with a bag, purporting to be a customer. He then pulled out a gun, pointed it to the cashier and demanded cash.
According to the eyewitness, the cashier was so taken aback that she lost her footing and fell backwards. But another staffer behind the counter yielded to the gunman’s demands and handed over money – said to be less than $10,000 – in two bags.
The guard said that in his haste, the gunman dropped one of the bags and some of the money lay scattered on the floor. The guard was then marshalled into picking up the money while the gunman kept everyone in the store – about six persons – subdued on the floor.
On exiting the business place, the man stood outside and fired a round through the glass door. A director of the establishment, Earl Arthur, said that the round didn’t hit anyone in the store and at the time of this newspaper’s visit, nothing had been found.
Arthur said that this was the first time in seven years since the business opened that it was hit by robbers.
At the bakery, police officers were seen carrying out their investigations, but amazingly, business continued as usual with customers buying bread and other ‘bake-meats’.
