Vryheid’s Lust businessman slams firearm licence red tape

The Toyota Tundra which was struck by one of three bullets discharged during an attempted robbery at Vryheid’s Lust, East Coast Demerara late Friday night. Inset is a close up of the bullet hole.

An East Coast Demerara (ECD) businessman said yesterday that if he had been granted his firearm licence he would have been better able to defend his wife, who was attacked just before midnight on Friday in a chilling attempted robbery that still has the couple terrified.

Donna Fordyce of South Vryheid’s Lust, ECD who operates a business at Plaisance was held at gunpoint by two men. One of the assailants, a teenaged resident of the area,