Less than an hour after three cousins arrived from Trinidad yesterday morning they were attacked by three gunmen and robbed of more than $10 million in cash and jewellery.
As the robbery was in progress, Bibi Ally managed to lock herself in her Diamond New Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara home and telephoned police. The minutes she spent on the phone with Diamond police, the woman said, were a waste. “The policeman that answer the phone sound like he just wake up and he keep asking me a set of stupid questions,” Ally told Stabroek News yesterday afternoon. “All I told this police was that bandits in front the house robbing my family…I didn’t tell him how many bandits there were…and he turn and ask me if is three African men…I just hang up the phone.”
Ally said she then telephoned the Grove Police Station. The officer who answered the phone there was very polite, she said, and promised to
