No bail for accused in knife-point robbery

Toralva Scipio is now a remanded prisoner after being accused of holding a woman at knife-point and escaping with her cellphone after she refused to hand over her cash.

When Scipio appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts yesterday, he denied that on January 18, being armed with a dangerous weapon, he robbed Saleema Mohamed of an $80,000 BlackBerry smartphone.

The court heard from Prosecutor Bharat Mangru that Mohamed went into the