Taxi driver remanded on armed robbery charge

Magistrate Allan Wilson remanded a taxi driver accused of a gunpoint robbery of a man, when he yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge.

The court heard that Travis Waithe, 22, of 240, Forshaw Street, Queenstown, a taxi driver attached to Confidential Taxi Service, on February 22, while being armed with a gun, allegedly robbed Sasenarine Balkarran of a quantity of gold jewellery and a cell phone amounting