Police defend response time to chilling Maida robbery

The police yesterday sought to defend their response time to a chilling robbery on Sunday at Maida, Corentyne saying that reports of a slothful response was a fabrication aimed at achieving political mileage.

The victims had said that the determined bandits took almost one hour to enter the Lot 47-48 Maida Farm house, during which calls were made to the police who failed to respond until about half an hour after the bandits had left.

In a press release issued yesterday the police force said that it had observed that at least one political party has been “lying” on police ranks in