An Enmore businessman yesterday lost in excess of $3 million to an armed bandit who confronted his employee and snatched the bag outside the Princess Hotel, Providence.
Speaking to Stabroek News on the incident, Amarlall Itwaru, proprietor of A Itwaru Hardware and General Store at Lot 38 Blossom Scheme, Enmore, related that two of his porters were on their way to make a deposit at the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry ATM situated in the hotel. The businessman explained that he is a client of Shell Gas Station, where he purchases Sol gas for resale, and since the company does not take direct payment he is required to pay through the bank. Itwaru further explained that he uses the ATM at Providence in order to avoid the congestion in Georgetown.
According to one of the porters, Anand Bachan, 27, he and another porter left Enmore around 9.30 am in the
