Pandemonium reigned on Friday at the Yarakita Primary School in the Mabaruma Sub-Region when a party of heavily armed policemen forced a dozen young men from the community to strip naked in
According to a teacher at the Region One school, on Thursday evening several men who work in the goldfields across the Venezuelan border were robbed by four armed men as they walked along the trail which led to the goldfields in the Polvo de Oro area and which is frequented by Guyanese miners. The robbery occurred some three miles away from the Amerindian community.
Several attempts to reach senior police officials for a
