UG students get community service after multi-million dollar store hold-up

Darien Best

Two of the three University of Guyana students who were accused of an armed hold up of a city store, where millions of dollars in items were stolen, were on Monday sentenced to community service for the crime.

Darien Best, 19, of 429 Guyhoc Park, Georgetown and Joel De Mendonca, 20, of 17 Providence Park, East Bank Demerara (EBD) had been found guilty of two charges of armed robbery by city magistrate Judy Latchman after a trial.

Another youth, Morris Gibson, 21, was also charged jointly with the duo but he had the