Taxi driver remanded over Kingston gunpoint robbery

A hire car driver accused of robbing a woman of a quantity of cash at gunpoint outside the Black and Decker Hard-ware Store was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.

The allegation against Jagdesh Baksh, 36, of 31 Second Street, Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara is that on March 3 at George-town, being armed with a gun, he robbed Nazila Sookdeo of $320,000, property of the said Sookdeo.

The defendant pleaded not guilty to the indictable