Welder remanded on shooting, armed robbery charges

Clyde Forte was remanded to prison yesterday after he was arraigned on charges of firing a loaded weapon and carrying out a $1.4 million armed robbery.

Forte, a welder, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the five charges read to him.

It was alleged that in attacks in October and December of last year,